Poisoxors Cheese. It is a well-
known fact, not unfrenuently brough
to public notice In the newspapers, that
I nossesses txiisoiious nronertiea. Knwil
oei'JISlfinnllv a fll&4 is rnum u-litoh
is nla,ie ot very gere anj occasionally
; faUi CHSes w,ere the symptoms could
be attributed to no other cause than
the eating of cheese where, indeed,
every individual partaking thereof was
: more or less atlc-ted. Sometime
ago
almost the entire Legislature of the
Mate or ermont, on the occasion of an
eiitertainmentonered to its members at
adjournment, were thus made sick, and
albeit some sport was made of it at the
time, it was by no means a laughin
; matter, though all who were affected
by the poisonous cheese recovered. The
symptoms of this cheese-poisoning are
i nausea, followed by violent and pro-
tracteu vomiting; pain in the bowels
! recovers there remains for some time
soreness aud tenderness of the bowels,
some of the marks of arsenical poison
ing. These facts have very much mis
led the public, so that in one case the
idea has prevailed that no real ixuson
ing occurred, but that the symptoms
simply indicated the over-eating of in
uigestioie loon, or me indulgence in
unaccustomed beverages; while, on the
other, the attending physician has
been led to susect carelessness in the
use or fans-green, or in the applica
tion of arsenical fly-poison to the out
side or the cheese.
