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‘were remarkably pale: on tracing the wound, it was found in- 
flamed, and in two places along its course a small quantity of blood 
was found effused between the muscle and tendon. 
Exper. 2.—A dog about four months old was pricked in the 
muscles of the thigh with the oopas that had been prepared from 
the juice I collected in Poegar; the poison had remained on the 
arrow about 48 hours. In three minutes he began to tremble, and 
the wounded limb shook more considerably; he soon began to 
droop, hung his head, and extending his tongue, licked his jaws. 
In four minutes he began to retch; on the eighth minute he 
vomited, with violent and painful contraction of the pectoral and 
abdominal muscles, which agitated his whole frame. In nine 
minutes he vomited again‘with convulsive violence ; the secretion 
of saliva was much increased, he stretched out his fore-legs as if he 
could with difficulty support himself, his head hanging to the 
ground; his breathing was slow and laborious, In 11 minutes he 
threw up frothy matter, with violent contraction of the abdominal 
and pectoral muscles, and throwing himself on the ground, cried 
out violently. In 12 minutes the vomiting returned, he cried more 
violently, was seized with convuisions, extended his extremities, 
and on the 13th minute he died. 
On dissection a small quantity of serum was found in the abdo- 
men. ‘The intestines were natural, the liver was much distended 
with blood, as also the vessels of the kidneys. 
The stomach still contained some aliment. 
In the thorax the lungs were of a beautiful crimson colour and 
the vessels strongly distended; on puncturing the adrta the blood 
bounded out forcibly of an elegant florid colour ; collected in a cup 
it soon coagulated ; from the venze cave the blood also sprung out 
forcibly of a dark livid colour. 
The vessels on the surface of the brain were more than naturally 
injected with blood; as were the longitudinal and frontal sinuses. 
The wound was as in the last instance. 
Exper. 3.—An animal called gendoo by the Javanese (the lemur 
volans of Linnzus) was pricked in the cavity of the ear with a 
mixture of the simple unprepared fresh juice of antshar, with a 
little extract of tobacco. It felt the effects very soon, and during 
the first minutes it was very restless; on the fifth minute it became 
drooping. In 10 minutes it was convulsed, and soon became 
motionless and apparently insensible. On the 20th minute it died. 
It must be remarked that this animal is uncommonly tenacious 
of life. 
In attempting to kill it for the purpose of preparing and stuffing, 
it has more than once resisted a violent strangulation full 15 minutes. 
Exper. 4.—A_ young lutra (welinsang of the Javanese) was 
punctured near the anus in the muscles of the abdomen, with the 
simple fresh juice of the antshar, mixed with a little extract of 
stramonium ; very soon after the puncture the animal became rest- 
less, and holding it in my hand, I could perceive convulsive twitch- 
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