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Dr. Mortimer gave to a puppy, one 

 ounce and a half of laurel water : in two 

 minutes time it became ftrongly convulfed, 

 put out the tongue, and made ilrong efforts 

 to vomit, but to no efFed ; it could not ftand, 

 but lay with its hinder legs ftretched out : 

 in five minutes it became more ftrongly con- 

 vulfed, rolled over and over feveral times, 

 drew its head back to its rump, then lay on 

 its fide, and panted much : he ftretched out 

 his fore legs, one after the other, drawing 

 in his flanks very quick : in fifteen minutes 

 more he died. An hour after his death, Dr. 

 Mortimer opened the body. All the contents 

 of the abdomen were in their natural ftate, 

 the ftomach was diftended with wind, and 

 contained a mucus of a much thicker confift- 

 ence than the liquor gaftricus naturally is ; 

 the infide of the ftomach was not at all in- 

 famed. Upon opening the thorax, he found 

 the lungs a little redder than ordinary, with 

 fome velTels on the outward membrane very 

 turgid : upon taking them out of the cheft, 

 a large quantity of clear red blood ifliied 

 from them. The veins and ventricles of the 

 heart were turgid, and full of coagulated 

 . blood. There was no blood in the arteries : 



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