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its own accord, to beat at the rate of 

 37 times In the minute, and continued for 

 eight or ten minutes after this to beat very 

 feebly,- arid in an irregular manner as to 

 time. -;^ ^--^ i^- .J <--.-' 



21. Mr. Robert Raififay- Studtnt df medicine 

 in this place, having diflblved two fcruples 

 of opinm in. an ounce of water and a dram of 

 liquid laudanum, injeded it blood-warm into 

 the inteftinum reBum of a very fmall dog near 

 fix months old. In lefs than a minute after 

 the injedion was made, the dog could not 

 ftand on his hinder legs' ; and in 3 or 4 mi- 

 nutes he had loft the ufe of them fo much, 

 that when they were ftrongly pinched, he 

 neither moved them, nor feemed in the leaft 

 degree' fenfible of pain. He could, however, 

 ftill fcramble about with his fore-legs ; and 

 when they or his ears were pinched, he 

 howled remarkably, and feemed to feel con- 

 fiderable pain. Ten minutes after the inje- 

 dlion, he lay as if he had been quite ftupid ; 

 only when a noife was made by beating on 

 the ground, he opened his eyes a little and 

 howled, but prefently after fell into a pro- 

 found fleep. In a few minutes after this, 

 he began to be convulfed j upon which Mr. 



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