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for six months it would accumulate in his system much in the 

 same way as small closes of lead. If you took small doses of lead it 

 would not produce any immediate effect ; but not being eliminated 

 it would be stored up in the body and by and bye produce very 

 alarming results, and it was quite possible that the toxic action 

 of fusel oil would act much in the same way. The men about the 

 streets were not to be compared with the ordinary drinker who 

 takes an occasional glass ; those poor creatures that we saw 

 standing about the corners of the streets were imbibing it all day. 

 They are members of the State, and we had, it was to be hoped, 

 some degree of interest in mankind so as to enable them to get as 

 pure an article as possible. Mr. Dixon had suggested that he 

 should have tried experiments on men and not on animals ; that 

 had been a great difficulty with him. He should like very much 

 to have experimented on human subjects, and he had hinted as 

 much, but of course it was an impossibility. He only knew from 

 these effects upon himself, that it was a very irritating disagreeable 

 noxious liquid. With regard to the incident mentioned by Mr. 

 Dixon of the man who took a gulp of fusel oil, he could only think 

 it must have been largely diluted. The latest authorities on the 

 subject, considered that 1 - 60th to 1 - loth of a grain produced 

 intoxicating results. The effect on animals was very distressing 

 to see. 



In reply to a question of Dr. Leibius, Mr. Hamlet said there 

 were no recorded experiments of the cumulative effects of fusel 

 oil, but it was inferred from the innate properties of fusel oil that 

 it was so. Of course, he did not compare it with lead, but merely 

 mentioned lead by way of illustration, and it would not be fair to 

 compare it with lead. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1887. 



Charles Moore, F.L.S., &c, Vice-President in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The certificate of one new candidate was read for the third 

 time, and of two for the first time. 



The ballot for the election of the candidate whose certificate had 

 been read for the third time, was postponed to the next General 

 Meeting in consequence of a quorum not being present. 



