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is obvious that no time fhould be loft in the employment 
of the means that have been mentioned, or of fome means 
of afimilar nature. In thofe cafes where the poifon is ap- 
plied near to the orifice of an abforbing-veflel we have rea» 
fon to fuppofe that it will be conveyed into’ the  mafs of 
blood with great celerity. The mildeft fluids pafs along 
the lymphatick-veflels with rapidity, but when thefe veffels 
are expofed to the influence of cold, or when they are fti- 
mulated by poifons of any kind, their propelling aétion is 
greatly encreafed. ‘Even, however, after we are convinc- 
ed that a portion-of the poifon has ‘been abforbed,’ we 
ought not, I think, to omit the ufe of the ligature, and of 
fome of the other means which have been mentioned. 
As poifons of various kinds in their paflage through the 
fymphatick-veflels are liable to be detained, for fome time, 
in the glandular appendages of this fyftem,’ it would, 
perhaps, be of ufe to fcarify thefe parts, and to apply a 
blifter to them, in order to promote the. difcharge of the 
poifon. Let usfuppofe, for inftance, that the poifon of 
the RaATTLE-SNAKE isthrown intothe fole, orend, of the 
foot clofé to the mouths of anumberof lymphatick-veflels, 
In mott cafes, the ftimulant effets of this fingular fluid 
are obferved to take place in.afew minutes. The lympha- 
ticks partake of the inflammation whichis excited: the poi- 
fon is quickly propelled along them, but its paflage into 
the blood-veflels is fomewhat retarded by the conglobate- 
DL el a glands 
wound occafioned by the bite’ of a poifonousferpent, and that the application ‘Was attended. 
with the happieft effects. See the Flora Swecica of Linnzeus, p. 128. It has alfo been lately. 
recommended, ‘and its beneficial effects have been experienced, in the fame cafe, and in the 
bite of the mad-dog. See what Acrel has faid on the fubje@ in the Yet. Acad. Handl. for 
the year £778, p. 104. . All the fpecies of the genus Daphne, with which the botaniits are ace 
qnainted, are indued with the fame property. ‘The bark when chewed ftrongly ftimulates 
the mouth and fauces, exciting a confiderable degree of heat : when applied externally to the 
fkin, it produces-a blifter and a confiderable difcharge of ferous matter. Its good, efleéts in 
the inftances juft mentioned, are,therefore, I prefume, to be referred to this’ {timulating pro- 
rty. The bark of the White- Walnut, as thave already obferved, atts in-the fame way, though 
Lj fo readily, or fo powerfully. The Mezereon or the cantharides, perhaps more efpecially 
the Daphne Gnidivm, would, imagine, be very properly fubitituted for it, 
