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fatigue. The arrival at the abattoir (Paris) of a consignment of cattle 
from South America gave opportunity for the experiments. Five in- 
dividuals died after a panic stricken race. The autopsy revealed that 
the animals had suffered from both hunger and thirst during the long 
journey. Of three rabbits inoculated with the serum of the dead cattle 
the first, injected with a dose of 12 cubic centimeters, died in five 
hours; the second, inoculated with 5 cubic centimeters, was seized with 
a violent diarrhcea, which terminated its life at the end of the fifth day, 
having lost one-third of its weight; the third, having received one 
cubic centimeter of serum, died in 30 hours. In the first and third 
case the liver was very much congested and enlarged. 
Although the intravenous injections differ from the accustomed 
mode of ingestion of food, M. Redon thinks it highly probable that the 
eating of the flesh of animals that have died from fatigue is detrimental 
to health. Acting on this presumption, the veterinary inspectors 
promptly quarantined all the animals of the consignment that showed 
signs of the fever of fatigue. (Revue Scientifique, June, 1895.) 
Poisons of Putrid Fish.—In a short article, incorporated in the 
Bull. U.S. Fish Commission recently issued, Dr. J. Lawrence Hamilton 
points out the connection between foul fish and filth diseases. Begin- 
ning with cholera, he notes the outbreak of this disease in 1893, in the 
fishing ports of Grimsby and Hull, and instances cases of deaths which 
occurred from mussels, cockles and oysters from those infected ports. 
It is well known that fishing populations, from their slovenly and 
dirty habits, are more prone to endemic as well as epidemic affections. 
The author refers to Astrakan, the seat of the sturgeon and caviare 
industries, as a case in point. Statistics show that the population of 
this place would become extinct were it not recruited from external 
sources. During the winter of 1878-79, the plague devasted the place, 
and the worst and most fatal cases were among the laborers employed 
in fish salting, who live under very miserable conditions. The price of 
bread being beyond their reach, they subsist chiefly on the leavings of 
the inferior parts of the prepared fish. Formerly, Government rules 
enforced that the unused remains of the prepared fish should be 
thrown directly into the the water, but now these, collected and ac- 
cumulated in masses, are left to rot in and about the banks of the 
rivers under the heat of sometimes an almost tropical sun. The local 
atmosphere is further vitiated by many fat-boiling, fish-oil, isinglass, 
etc., works. During the five years preceding the outbreak of plague 
in 1878, enteric fevers, measles and small-pox were epidemic, whilst 
scarlet fever raged in 1876-77. Previous to 1878, the town of Astra- 
