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XXXVI. An Account of fome poifonous Fijh in The South 
Seas. In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart . P. R. S. 
from Mr. William Anderfon, late Surgeon's Mate on 
board His Majeflfs Ship the Refolution, now Surgeon 
of that Ship. 
TO SIR. JOHN PRINGLE, BART. P. R. S. 
Q , p Refolution, 
^ Deptford, April 23, 1776. 
J u ^ T N compliance with your requeft I have lent 
you the few notes which 1 had taken of the 
cafes of fome of our Ihip’s company, who, on our late 
voyage to the South Sea, had experienced the bad effects 
of eating certain fifh of a poifonous nature. I w T as, per- 
il aps, lefs folicitous about remarking the minute circum- 
ftances attending their illnefs, as I then believed it was a 
diforder well known in the Weft Indies, having fre- 
quently heard of people being poifoned, as it is com- 
monly exprefled, by eating fome particular kinds of lilli ; 
but, as far as I have been able to inquire lince of thole 
who have been there, or from books, I do not find that 
any tolerable account either of the difeafe,orof the means 
of curing it, has been made public. 
This being the cafe, it is almoft needlefs to fay, that in 
treating the diforder we could have no method founded 
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