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of strychnia could prevent death, when a deadly dose of snake 

 poison had been injected. If the pigeons lived longer than two 

 hours after the injection of the snake poison they recovered, but 

 did not get on more quickly than ordinarily when I had adminis- 

 tered strychnia afterwards. My next experiments will try to 

 find out if Australian snake poison is of use in poisoning by 

 strychnia, and I will only mention here that a solution of tannic 

 acid makes a sediment in a solution of snake poison, arresting the 

 active principle of it, making it insoluble in water, and taking 

 away its effect. 



