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can produce them at all. It is not to toxology 

 then, surely, but to physiology and anatomy 

 that we must turn to grasp the cause of this 

 instantaneous annihilation ; and to understand 

 these marvellous happenings we must consider 

 not so much the intense strength of the poison 

 injected as the importance of the organ injured. 

 What is there, then, at the point where the 

 sting enters ? 



