3IO ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



I did not attend to the efFedls till half 

 an hour thereafter, when I found that 

 whole member paralytic, its toes and fkiii 

 having loft their fenfibility, and the muf- 

 cles their motion. The animal f^emed 

 much ftupified, and could fcarcely move 

 its body from the place by the help of the 

 other hind extremity ; and the blood had 

 ceafed from motion in the fmall veiTels of 

 both feet ; tho', on examining the heart, 

 I found it ftill gave 22 regular, but feeble 

 ftrokes in the minute. After ten minutes 

 more, all the members of the body were 

 extended and convulfed, and the animal 

 w^as quite unable to move its body out of 

 the place where it was laid, and foon af-' 

 ter died. 



(Tino Trials), 

 I then tried the fame experiment with 

 20 drops only of the folution ; and obfer- 

 ved, that, in about a quarter of an hour, 

 that extremity was much weakened and 

 lefs fenfible, and in five minutes more 

 was not only motionlefs and infenfi- 

 ble, but the animal feemed to be much 



ftupified, 



