[481]. Med. Legale, t. iv, 835.
[482]. Vol. 1, p. 519.
[483]. See volume 1 of the present work, p. 95.
[484]. See Orfila, vol. 2.
[485]. See Dr. Stone on the Diseases of the Stomach, p. 80. We also beg to direct the attention of the medical reader to a paper entitled “On the effects of certain articles of food, especially oysters, on women after child-birth, by John Clarke, M. D.” Med. Trans. vol. v, p. 109.
[486]. For October, 1808, vol. iv, p. 393.
[487]. For June, 1815, vol. 3, p. 445.
[488]. Dr. Burrows has given us a list of them in the paper above alluded to; the most poisonous of which is the yellow-bill’d sprat, (Clupea Thryssa.) Indeed, says this author, it has rarely occurred that immediate death has ensued between the tropics from the virus of any other fish. M. Orfila observes that the action of this fish is so rapid, that it has been often seen at St. Eustatia that persons have expired while still eating it.
[489]. Med. Rep. vol. 3, p. 445.
[490]. Gazette de Santé, Ire Mars, 1812, p. 51.—Ibid. 21 Mars, 1813.—Ibid. 1, Octob. 1812.