Probably 110 hettcr statement of the present status of veno-IIIOUS fish research will be found tJian the following excerpt from Demoreau ( '08) written 46 years ago :"For a long time fish stings have been considered commoii accidents, and if sometimes they are followed by serious phenomena, the cause has been attributed to a series of vaguely defined facts varying a t the will of the authors and thus remaining unexplained most of the time. Ccrtain fish, such as the wewer, the stingray, and the scorpionfish, have a l w a p bcen feared, but one would consider that the observations reported were mere curiosities rather than scientific facts. Here and there, certain authors mention cases of death and other affections of extreme seriousness whose chronivitp docs not permit one t o predict the end of the malactp; still others speak of amputations necessary t o save the life of the individual ; others, finally, report simple malaises cured in 48 hours, but no one cares to decide that there is anything which is poorly understood arid d e s r r r~s to hare its own autonomy. "
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