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same, I have learned that where the essential oil 

 of almonds is applied to a wound, its effects are 

 not so instantaneous as when it is applied to the 

 tongue ; but that otherwise there is no difference 

 in its effects in whichever manner it is used. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH THE JUICE OP THE LEAVES OF THE 

 ACONITE. 



EXPERIMENT XVIII. 



1 made a wound in the side of a young rabbit, 

 and introduced, between the skin and muscles, 

 about twenty drops of the juice of aconite. 

 23 minutes afterwards he was affected with 

 symptoms, in all essential respects similar to 

 those which occurred in an experiment already 

 related, where the juice was injected into the 

 rectum, and at the end of 47 minutes from the 

 application of the poison, he was apparently 

 dead. Two minutes after apparent death, the 

 heart was found contracting, but very feebly. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH THE WOORARA.* 

 EXPERIMENT XIX. 



A small quantity of the woorara in powder 

 was applied to a wound in the side of a Guinea 



* The Woorara is a poison with which the Indians of 

 Guiana arm the points of their arrows. It appears not to 



