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water is poured on, and it is boiled about an hour, when the fluid 
is carefully filtered through a white cloth. It is then exposed to the 
fire again, and boiled down to nearly the consistence ef an extract 5 
in this state it much resembles a thick syrup. The following 
spices having been prepared as above described, are added in the 
same proportion as to the antshar, viz. kaempferia galanga, (konts- 
hur,) soonty &c. Dshey, for common onion, garlic, and black 
pepper. 
The expressed juice of these is poured into the vessel, which is 
once more exposed to the fire a few minutes, when the preparation 
is complete. The oopas of both kinds must be preserved in very 
close vessels. 
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Experiments.—\. With the Antshar. 
Exper. 1.—A dog of middling size was wounded in the muscles 
of the thigh with an arrow that had been immersed into the newly 
prepared oopas, and had been exposed to the air one night. In 
three minutes he seemed uneasy, he trembled and had occasional 
twitchings, his hair stood erect, he discharged the contents of his 
bowels. An attempt was made to oblige him to walk but he could 
with difficulty support himself. In eight minutes he began to 
tremble violently, the twitching continued, and his breathing was 
hasty. In 12 minutes he extended his tongue and licked his jaws 5 
he soon made an attempt to vomit. In 13 minutes he had violent 
contractions of the abdominal and pectoral muscles, followed by 
vomiting ef a yellowish fluid. In 15 minutes the vomiting re- 
curred. In 16 minutes, almost unable to support himself, with 
violent contraction of the abdominal muscles. In 17 minutes he 
threw himself on the ground, his respiration was laborious, and he 
vomited a frothy matter. In 19 minutes violent retching, with 
interrupted discharge of a frothy substance from his stomach. In 
21 minutes he had spasms of the pectoral and abdominal muscles, 
his breathing was very laborious, and the frothy vomiting continued. 
In 24 minutes in apparent agony, turning and twisting himself, 
tising up and lying down, throwing up froth. In 25 minutes he 
fell down suddenly, screamed, extended his extremities convulsed, 
discharged his excrement, the froth falling from his mouth, On 
the 26th minute he died. 
Dissection.—The abdomen being opened about five minutes 
after death, a small quantity of a serous fluid was found in the 
cavity; the liver, intestines, and other viscera were natural.—In 
the stomach a yellowish frothy mucilage was found adhering to the 
internal coat, which was contracted into wrinkles. 
In the thorax the lungs were of an elegant florid colour, and 
gorged with blood, the pulmonary vessels exhibiting through their 
coats a florid sanguinary fluid: on puncturing the ascending aorta 
the blood gushed out of a florid colour. 
In the venze cavee the blood was of the usual dark hue, and on 
puncture flowed out forcibly. The muscles of the extremities 
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