402 ON THE POISON OF THE RATTLESNAKE. 



Experiment 3. 



4 h. 10 m. A pup was bitten over the inner canthus of 

 the right eye. 



At 4 h. 15 m. the effects of the poison were visible, and at 

 4 h. 20 m. involuntary discharges of faeces occurred. 



At 4 h. 35 m. the subject was very sick, the parts much 

 swelled and painful. 



At 4 h. 30 m. six ounces of the decoction have been taken 

 at intervals of six or eight minutes. 



5 h. P.M. Two ounces more were swallowed ; the swel- 

 ling is excessive about the eye ; in other respects the symp- 

 toms have mitigated. 



4 h. 40 m. A kitten received a wound from the same 

 snake; several wounds were received in all, and the animal 

 died with the usual symptoms in a few hours. 



The constitutional symptoms in the pup appeared to miti- 

 gate an hour after the wound, but the swelling extended over 

 the whole face. The blood, percolating from the vessels in 

 the vicinity of the wound, became diffused through the 

 cellular tissue, and did not coagulate. Next morning the 

 pup was found dead, having swallowed the last portion of the 

 decoction at 10, P.M. 



Note. — In enumerating the names of those gentlemen who contributed towards 

 defraying the expenses of the first series of experiments, Dr James Mease was 

 accidentally omitted. 



