While such a pretreatment increased the sensitivity ten to forty times, the damage to the gills induced by brief exposure to ichthyotoxin was reversible.

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Bless thee, bully doctor!

When we had made the boys as comfortable as possible and given them fags, of which our Padre seemed to have an inexhaustable supply, they were quite cheerful, and joked about “backsheesh” wounds.