Royal Socie ty. 295 
CDXCII. wliich according to Gokzius is the 7th year after the 
Romans firft began to ftamp (ilver money • and to mention no 
more, many are filed in fmall notches round the edge, of which 
fort Mr, ^horeshy had Ibme of Scifi'o j4fiaticus^ &c. and other 
confular pieces, but he never faw any of a Liter date. 
7^5 Symptoms attending the Site of a Serpent 5 by Mr. Aar. 
Goodyear. Phil. Tranf. N° 245. p. 351. 
MR. Robert 'Burdett an Englljh merchant at Aleppo was 
bit by a ferpent on the left wrift, near the pulle towards 
his hand ^ it feemed at firft like two pricks of a pin, he imme- 
diately vomited, and his wrift and hand began to fwel], he had 
fome few days before a loofenefs, which perhaps this incieaied 3- 
he rode eafily after he was bit about two miles from home, he 
laid he fe r no pain, but had a great defire to lleep, his arm con- 
tinued fwelling upwards and grew black; fome few remedies 
were applied, and his arm was cupped and Icarined, he conti- 
nued rfill without pain, but was very drowfy ; at laft the fwelling 
came up to his (houlder, and then he cc;mplained much, and 
within a quarter of an hour he died: He was bit about 10 in the 
forenoon and died about 3 in the afternoon ; his body 1 welled 
much after he was dead, and purged : The fnake was like a com- 
mon fnake for length, of a dark fandy colour with black fpots^ 
his two teeth, or fangs were like thole of a rattle-lhake on the 
upper jaw j the poilon lies in the gums, and wherever they fetch 
blood of any creature they certainly kill, tho' in Ibme parts 
fboner than m others: The people c)f the country lay, that if, as 
foon as one is bit by a ferpent, he immediately fucks the wound, 
he may be faved 5 but he muil firft rub his gums and teeth with 
oil, that none of the poifon may touch any place where the Ikin 
is broken, and immediately fpit out what he has lucked, every 
time wafhing his mouth, and taking more oil. This lerpent 
killed a dog in about 8 minutes time, biting him at the end of 
his ear; and two young turkeys afterwards in 9 or 4 minutes 
each, biting them at the end of a claw; then poiioning the 
fnake with the oil of tobacco out of a reed-pipe, that had been 
much ufed and not cleanled for a week or two, it died in about 
two or three minutes, trembling as foon as the oil was thrown 
into its mouth. 
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