[ 9%2 fp. 
dog laft-mentioned, even at the end of twelve months, 
remained perfectly well. 
The refult of thefe experiments appears to be fin- 
gularly curious. It is no lefs remarkable, that this 
and other animal poifons of the moft deadly kind may 
be received into the ftomach without injury. 
“¢ The faliva of a mad-dog,” fays Mr. Brucs; 
the celebrated traveller, ‘* has been given to animals, 
«and has notvafiectedthem.” ‘The fame is affirmed 
of the viperite poifon, where a perfon had the te- 
merity to drink a glafs of wine imbued with the 
poifon of an enraged viper, without experiencing 
any dangerous effects; though, according to Fon- 
TANA’S experiments, it fometimes deftroys other 
animals, when given in large dofes. 
Repti and Cuaras, whoalfo ventured to tafte the 
viper’s: poifon, declared it refembled the oil of 
fweet almonds. 
When the canine poifon is firft introduced into 
the human body by a wound, or fmall fcratch, as in 
inoculation, it betrays no fign of acrimony, nor of 
an actual venomous quality. No violent inflamma- 
tion, nor fwelling of the lymphatic gland above the 
part affected, enfues, but the wound heals as kindly 
as any common fore. There it lies dormant an in- 
definite fpace of time, moft commonly about fix 
weeks, fometimes eight or nine months; and in fome 
rare inftances even eighteen months; till at length, 
when the accident is perhaps forgotten, it fuddenly 
becomes 
