To the Editor of the *"Nomrm-CHiNA Dany News"
Sm,—Will you or any of your readers be good enough to tell me whether an oyster dies when its shell is opened or whether it is still in a sentient state of vitality when placed in our mouths? I knew a whole party once who were attacked by copper poisoning on board a yacht, because they had all been eating oysters which had been feeding on the copper plates of scuttled German ships, It showed itself in an outbreak of a most painful skin eruption. Hence the question.
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