The Toxicity of Carbon Tetrachloride to Cats. A Warning

for a number of experiments on the toxicity of carbon tetrachloride under various conditions of diet, etc. In all we have given carbon tetrachloride to 87 cats, in various dosages and under various dietary conditions and have found the susceptibility of cats to this drug so great that it was impossible to get more than suggestive results from our various experiments. Ninety-two per cent, of the cats died or were killed in a dying condition, regardless of dosage or diet. Hall and Shillinger (1923) state that carbon tetrachloride at the rate of 0.3 c.c. per kilo, is well tolerated by cats, and report ten experiments on five kittens, with doses of carbon tetrachloride ranging from 2 c.c. to over 11 c.c. per kilo., of which only two, receiving over 9 c.c. per kilo, each, died. Two of the kittens