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fing agility, when they are any way difijrdered : their bite is very 
noxious, but not always of the fame efficacy, but more or Jefs 
niorta , as the Ituke is m force and vif-our; and therefore in %rw 
/'y'' *, , "^ -' """"^ *°'''^' '"^ more ntal than in AUnb 
TtT '/u' 7''^ ".^ ""'i'^'"" '°" «f" "'^at«^. a"J will 
offn7v'" ,'^"j'"Z,*'''"S' ""l<^ft provoked; but if any thing 
thH^ r 'l 1"^'^^^^"-J^'y '°"= An Mia,,, being bit by one oT 
the e fnakes between the fingers, bound hi. arm as\ard as poffi- 
blewith a ftring and clapped a hot burning coal on the place, 
and leared ir, whereby he was cured, but ite looked pale for 
th^lT ' f'^u''" ^l- ^^"y""' ''^^"''^ °"^ °f fh^ l^ft me- 
f ppofes the efficacy of their poifon to Lm m thicfcmna the 
bloodj viperj, and all the viperous kind, as rattle-fnakes," «£?f. 
that are noxious, have their teeth fiftulous; and therefore they 
teeth into the mafs of blood; now as the effect of this poifon is 
to coagulate the blood, as feveral malignant fevers alfo do n a 
fuch cales volatile falts feem to be tlie propereft phyfick as thev 
Keep the blood fluid; and bleeding feems to be^vely preiudicia? 
asitdiminilhesthefpirits, and congeals the blood^L Wr- 
and by this method, Mr. C^YS^had'cnred feveraj patient.s : The 
blowing. fnakeis an abiilute lpec.es of a viper, but laX than 
and diftend its head, and IWell very much before it bites, whkh 
IS v;ery morta ; it is very remarkable, that none of theie Zk,s 
make that hiflmg „o,fe, as thofe in E^gla.d do, but only fl^oo 
ibr Sfadr? r^ ""if^ r^ ^"i-'hem: There is Inothe 
d/rV W ^ "'■'"• 'f'!-^ '^' Red/„akei they are of an ugly 
tt T? '°'°"/' *?'''"'"2 '°''^i ^heir bellies^re of a mf e 
thiSo is of th?* ' ^f^'/'Z^: °f vermillion-red on either fide" 
Sv foke (^''P.l'if"'^ = The horn-fnake is another fpecies of 
thhl nt' ''f'^ ^'°"' '^^ ^°"' " 1^^^ i" "' fronr, where- 
fnake The' M v^rV "'"f P''°P"'y ^' ''^""'"^ '° «he dart- 
Z,^\ I ^'^'^''-'n^'"^ 's the larged, its bite is not dcem-d 
mortal, but the wound fwells and turns to a running fore; W 
a others mft'lT'Y'"' ^r^'' ^"'^ ^°^''- ^he cortftak f o^f 
are not lo regular neither has it any r.-tles they arc morf fre 
noT^Uen-r'Tt ''"' ^^^ V^'^k the'nameVttrfe 
Vol m ^''^*«"-*"^keisa Imall fnakc, theyaieof an 
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