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early morning but what all these things might have escaped 

 notice if he had not been watched. He was dull enough at any 

 time. 



Nov. 27, he seemed natural. At 9:30 P. M. he was given six 

 tablespoonfuls of strong extract. All next morning he "lay 

 extended on the floor, seemed indisposed and ate very little. At 

 6:.30 P. M. he ate a little of the snake-root mixed with potato. 

 Nov. 29, rather lively, if anything, actions all natural." After 

 this he showed little, if any, effect of the poison. 



Boy. 



"On Monday evening at 9:30 P. M. while I held the dog's 

 mouth open a friend poured the extract into the dog's mouth. 

 The dog choked and coughed the extract into my face and 

 mouth. I was in the room while the mixtrue was steeping and 

 also on the previous evening. At 10:30 I was taken with a fit 

 of cramps and the following day was nauseous. Several times 

 during the three following days I had fits of trembling, always 

 accompanying the extension of limb." 



— Bartelle H. Reixheimer. 



While another of my pupils was preparing a decoction of 

 snake-root, although it did not affect him, yet on his mother, 

 who was not well, it had a sickening effect, though she was not 

 in the same room. 



Rabbits. 



No. 6. A rabbit, weighing about Ijo lbs. Alton Fuchs 

 began feeding snake-root Dec. 9, 9 A. M. It was kept supplied 

 most of the time and given nothing else except on one occasion, 

 a few lettuce leaves. On the afternoon of Dec. 12 I was sur- 

 prised on looking in its box to see the rabbit dead for we had 

 seen no trembling nor anything the matter with it. Probably 

 if we had watched it that day we would have seen it tremble. 



From our experience with Cat No. 2 we had expected to iee 

 the legs tremble when unsupported, but later experience with 

 rabbits showed that they are not aft'ected in this way. This 

 rabbit had taken altogether about 2 ounces of snake-root, mostly 

 leaves and branches, likely much more than necessary to kill it. 

 The stomach and large intestine were found well filled. No 

 inflammation or congestion. 



No. 7. The mate to No. 0, was fed by Oscar Kubach, the 

 first snake-root being given in the morning of Dec. 13. He 

 noticed some trembling in the evening and more the next 

 evening. On Dec. 1() it was more pronounced. The rabbit died 

 that afternoon between 1 and 3, the interval from the first feed- 

 ing being about the same as in the case of No. 0. It took both 



