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POISONOUS GOATS’ MILK. 
On the 13th of Oct. about twenty persons residing in 
Strada St. Ursula and Strada Stretta, Malta, were seized with 
violent vomiting, and other symptoms of cholera. It was, 
however, soon ascertained by the police physician, Dr Felice 
Calleja, that their illness was caused by drinking the milk of 
two goats which had been fed on some wild herbs, com- 
monly known in this island by the names of oxalis or haxixa at 
l’lnglisi, latiris, or tenghud, or gemmugha, our wood-sorrel. 
However, none of these cases proved fatal . — Medical Times. 
PACT ABOUT WOORALI. 
In the New York Medical Times we find the following 
statement: “ Dr. John W. Green, of New York, is now en- 
gaged with some distinguished physiologists in experiments 
upon animals with the Woorali poison by the endermic 
method. The peculiar effects induced seem to favour the 
opinion, that important results may be anticipated from the 
sedative action of this poison in cases of tetanus or rabies.” 
THE POISONOUS PROPERTIES OE THE NARCISSU 
POETICUS. 
We are again indebted to Mr.Mellett, M.R.C.V.S., Henley- 
on-Thames, for forwarding us the particulars of some cases of 
the poisoning of pigs by the bulbs of the white jonquil, which 
for a second time has occurred very recently in his practice. 
He says that, “on Sunday morning, October 12th, I was 
requested to examine some pigs, the property of J. W. 
Rhodes, Esq., Henerton House, in consequence of one having 
died the day before, and several more being now very ill. 
Two died while I was on the premises, which afforded me an 
opportunity of making a post-mortem examination before 
decomposition had commenced. On opening the stomach, 
the vessels of which were much congested, I recognised 
immediately the smell of the Narcissus root, and in searching 
among the contents several pieces of the bulbs of the plant 
were found. I ascertained that two days previously to the 
