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fiery, and his sight so dull, that he did not seem to take notice of any thing; 

 and when beaten he would scarcely move. However, in 4 hours time he grew 

 better, and would eat bread. The next day he was brisker, and seemed past all 

 danger. In dissecting the same dog some time after, we found in the small 

 guts 2 flat- worms, one of them about 6 spans long, and the other about 5. 

 They had perforated the gut, and one of them was got half out of it into the 

 cavity of the abdomen. About the same time we found in two dogs a worm, 

 of near a foot in length, out of the intestines, in the cavity of the abdomen, 

 the intestines being nowise perforated, but remaining sound and whole. That 

 we might be more certain of this, we separated them from the mesentery, and 

 viewed them very carefully. But in both these dogs the omentum was of a bad 

 colour, and putrefied; from whence we conjectured, that these worms were 

 bred from the putrefaction of the omentum. 



We injected into the crural vein of a dog 5 ounces of a strong white wine, 

 which made him very drunk, and little different from what a less quantity of 

 spirit of wine would have done; but in a few hours his drunkenness abated, and 

 he recovered.— The same month of March, we injected into the crural vein of 

 a dog, an ounce of a strong decoction of tobacco. He was seized immedi- 

 ately with strange convulsions of his whole body. At first his eyes looked wild 

 and distorted, his jaws trembled, and in a little time he died terribly convulsed. 

 This experiment we repeated several times after, and always with the same suc- 

 cess. — Ten drops of distilled oil of sage, mixed with half a drachm of sugar, 

 and dissolved in an ounce of water, being injected into the crural vein of a 

 dog, did him no harm. — In a castrated dog, we observed the processes of the 

 peritonaeum and spermatic vessels covered with fat, and scarcely to be seen ; 

 and that he did not smell so rank and strong as other dogs that had not been 

 castrated. 



A yellow streaked lizard, or lacerta chalcidica, which had been kept all the 

 winter in a glass with bran, being exposed to the sun to refresh it, on the con- 

 trary died in a few hours. We have also often found, that scorpions exposed 

 to the hot sun, especially in the summer, died in a short time. — A drachm of 

 purified white vitriol, injected into the crural vein of a dog, killed him imme- 

 diately. — Fifteen grains of salt of urine, dissolved in an ounce of water, and 

 injected into the crural vein of a dog, cast him into such violent convulsions, 

 that we were afraid he would die under them. When he had recovered himself 

 a little, we repeated the injection with the same quantity ; but the dog got the 

 better of it, though with a great deal of difficulty, and perfectly recovered. 



April the 27 th, we made a decoction of 2 drachms of senna in water, and in- 

 jected warm 3 ounces of it into the crural vein of a very fat, large, and strong 



