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curred with greater violence on the 15th minute, when after 
violent tremors, convulsions, and screaming, he died. 
A creeping undulatory motion was observed in the skin after 
death over the surface of the whole body in this and several other 
instances. 
Exper. 17.—The following experiment was made at Soorakarta 
(in the course of the month of March, 1812) with the poison of 
the antshar, which I collected at Banjoowangee, in July, 1806. 
A. dog of middling size was wounded in the usual manner in the 
muscles of the thigh with a dart that had been dipped into the 
poison about 24 hours before, and during the interval had been 
exposed to the open air of a chamber. During the first 20 minutes 
after the puncture he remained quiet, and shewed few symptoms 
of uneasiness, except a kind of heaviness and fatigue: on the 20th 
minute his abdominal muscles were somewhat contracted, and he 
breathed heavier. In 25 minutes he had an increased flow of 
saliva and licked his jaws. In 27 minutes he started, screamed 
violently, fell down convulsed, and discharged the contents of his 
rectum. On the 28th minute the convulsions returned violently, 
and continued without interruption till the 30th minute, when he 
died. 
The dissection agrees with those previously made. The stomach 
was distended: it contained the food previously taken, the poison 
having acted with uncommon violence it was not ejected as usual. 
In the thorax the large vessels were very much distended with blood, 
exhibiting the appearances above described. 
The vessels of the lungs were distended and the lungs were florid. 
On removing the cranium the brain and dura mater were found 
nearly natural, the former pale, and perhaps more watery than usual. 
I]. Experiments with the Tshettik. 
Exper. \8.—A dog of middling size was wounded in the muscles 
of the thigh with a dart covered with the fresh prepared poison of 
tshettik. In two minutes he shewed symptoms of uneasiness; he 
appeared faint and Jay down. In three minutes and a half he was 
seized with convulsive twitchings of the extremities, was very rest- 
less, and his breathing became quick: these symptoms gradually 
increasing to the sixth minute, while he continued as exhausted in 
a lying posture. He now raised himself, extended his head as if 
attempting to leap, but fell down, was seized with violent convul- 
sions, attended by quick and interrupted breathing to the ninth 
minute, when he died. 
Exper. 19.—A small dog was wounded in the usual manner in 
the muscles of the thigh with the poison of tshettik. He imme- 
diately placed himself in a drooping posture, his fore-legs bent as 
in kneeling, and thus he continued to the fifth minute; he was 
now seized with trembling, which continued about half a minute, 
when he suddenly started, extended his head and neck, stretched 
