EFtXCTS or TUJB 5T1NG, 



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tressing during tlie time it remained. The 



fontiinumce of the pain was very severe for 

 nearly half an hour, after which it gradually 

 abated, but %b @&^t effects were felt during the 

 rem^itider of the d^y M ft slight miimb- 

 neas and hicreased temperature of the arm. 



About two hours after I had been stung, I 

 perceived that a vesicle had arisen on the spot ; 

 md when children have been stung, I observed 

 iSinsi mm&Gm mall rm^^ msm, mitilkr to 

 tliosc produced by the netfle. The intensity of 

 tlie oflects pruiliu'i'd depends? on the size and con- 

 sequent power of the animal ; and aftei- it has 

 been for some time removed from the water, it 

 !» Ibtwrt i^t^ tie sftbging property has dimi- 

 nkbsdi. Initative property, unattended^ 



however. Ijy any of tlie constitutional effects, 

 remains ibr a long- time in the tentacnlfs, even 

 after they have been removed from the animal j 

 It^ m tmsfMng a handk^iF^sMef mta^ week& diker 

 it had been ^ wiping off some po^iis ^ 

 the tentacnlav, the stinging property was found to 

 have remained, although it liad lost tliatvirnhmt 

 quality, which produced on a recent application 

 aiidb violent constitutional irritation* 



Thi& irritaMve secr^Ott dde& mt^ lo^ev^, 

 exist solely in this ^eidS «>f ittolhisca ; several 

 of the 7mdus<B Jbave ^niilar properties, which 



