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condition in which, an hour after, I found the old cat, the 
mother of the kitten. There it lay dead, with its limbs fully 
extended, and in the most rigid condition. My efforts to 
bend its limbs or replace them in their usual state were of no 
avail ; very rigid they were, and very rigid they remained. 
It had licked the mouth of the kitten, and, in consequence of 
doing so, speedily became affected in the way I have thus 
briefly described. On the following day I again tried to 
unbend and alter the position of the extremities, but with no 
more success than on the former trial to do so. Observations 
of the kind to which I have referred, I consider of great 
value in a medico-legal point of view, as indicative of pheno- 
mena that I believe are peculiar to the action of strychnia. 
I speak not now of detection, but merely of the effects or 
manifestations that arise from the exhibition of this poison. 
As the dose of it may be large or small, so will its effects 
become more or less apparent and violent, and ultimately 
produce fatal results. 
PROFESSIONAL REUNION. 
In our last number we announced the anticipation of a 
soiree , to be given by the President of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, W. Field, Esq. We have now the 
gratification to inform the profession that it will probably take 
place on the last Wednesday in March, the 26th inst. Further, 
that those members of the profession who are desirous of 
being present, will, on communicating their wish to the 
Secretary, E. N. Gabriel, Esq., 10, Red Lion Square, have 
an invitation-card transmitted to them. 
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