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June the 12th, he made the same experiment on two other cats, 

 and on three dogs ; these animals seemed to fall sick almost in an 

 instant : the cats had their hair bristled up, and their bodies ga- 

 thered into a heap : they scratched the ground with their fore feet. 

 The dogs did the same, and all of them had a languishing look, and 

 their eyes bathed in tears ; some of them looked at him stedtastly, 

 and made a mournful uoise : they were seized with a shivering, 

 and in fine they became paralytic in their feet only $ after which 

 they died, turning their head very quick to the right and left, with 

 their mouth wide open. Duriug this scene, he perceived a spasmo- 

 dic contraction in all the muscular parts of the neck. 



July the 15th, he pricked a hawk in the left claw: into thepuno 

 ture he introduced a small drop of the poison of ticunas mixed with 

 that of lamas, and then set the creature at liberty. From that 

 moment it was impossible for him to fly ; the most he could do was 

 to perch on a stick, which was within six inches of the ground. 

 There he shook his head several times, as if to get rid of something 

 that seemed troublesome in his throat. His eyes were restless, and, 

 his feathers were all bristled up. In fine, after several gapings, 

 his head fell all at once between his legs, and in three minutes he 

 died thus, with his wings expanded. He repeated this experiment 

 on several sorts of birds *, and they all died with pretty much the 

 same symptoms as those above-mentioned, and in as short a time. 

 He made six of these birds swallow a good dose of sugar, before 

 inoculating them with the poison : three, of them escaped death, 

 but the other three died very soon. The moment after inserting 

 the poison into four other birds, he made them swallow a good deal 

 of sugar; but that did not prevent their dying, almost as soon as 

 those that had taken none. He made other birds swallow sea. salt 

 instead of sugar; and not one of them recovered, whether they took 

 it before or after the application of the poison. 



July the 1 6th, he put a little of the same poison into a small 

 wound he had made in the right fore foot of a young rabbit. The 

 moment this operation was performed, he cut off that foot above 

 the place of insertion of the poison. He dressed the stump, and 

 the animal did not die. Some days afterwards, he repeated this 



* As pigeons, hens, blackbirds, sparrows, ducks, geese, and magpies, Orig. 

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