110 REMARKS on THE 
ed part, wheh, from the fituation of the bite, this can 
be done*. 
‘When the poifon of the Rartie-SNAke has adtually 
been introduced into the general mats of blood, it begins 
to.exertits moft alarming and characteriftick effects. A con-~ 
fiderable degree of naufea is a very early fymptom t. We 
now difcover an evident alteration in the pulfe: it be- 
comes full, ftrong, and greatly agitated. The whole body 
begins to {fwell: the eyes become fo entirely fuffuled, that 
it is difficult to difcover the {malleft portion of the adnata 
that is not painted with blood. In many inftances, there 
is an hemorrhagy of blood from the eyes, and likewife 
from the nofe and ears: and fo great is the change in- 
duced in the mafs of blood, that large cuantities of it are 
fometimes thrown out on the furface of the body, in the 
form of fweat. The teeth vacillate in their fockets, whilf 
the pains and groans of the unhappy fufferer too plainly 
inform us that the extin@tion of life is near at hand. 
In this ftage of its action, and even before it has indu- 
ced the moft alarming of the fymptoms which I have men- 
tioned, the powers. of medicines can do little to check the 
rapid and violent progrefs of this poifon. The employ- 
ment of the ligature, the ufe of the blifter, and of the o- 
ther modes of treatment which I recommended in the lo- 
cal ftage, itis obvious toremark, will be of very little, if 
any, benefit ‘here. When there is no hemorrhagy, how- 
eVET; 
* See vol. 2, p. 41. Mr. Catefby alfo ilies mention of the ouititah op fucking the wound, 
which, he fays, “ina flight bite, has fometimes a good elect 5 tho’ the recovered perfon 
‘* never fails of having annual pains at the timethey were bit... Wol. 2. p. 41. The Abbé 
Clavigero fays, the molt effectual remedy for the bite of che RatrLe-SNAKE, “is thought to be 
« the | holding ‘of the wounded partfometime.in the earth.” The Hiffory of Mexico, &c. vol. rt, 
P- 59s Englifh Tranflation. : 
+ lt is remarkable that a naufea, and fometimes a vomiting, is induced in many cafes in a 
few minutes after the poifon has heén thrown, into a. mufcular parti and long before it can” 
poflibly have entered the blood-veilels, throug hthe medium of thea Morbent-lymphaticks; or, ad~ 
mitting that it has been introduced direly: into a (blood-veffel; before this active poifon can 
have cifeGted in the general mafs any change whatevef. Dozs not this very fudden appearance 
of the naufea and vomiting feem to render it probable that the poifon of the Rarrie-Ssake 
exerts confiderable effects on the nervous matter of animals? 
