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do well, we left the wound to itself, which healed in 13 days, only by the dog's 

 licking it. 



gth. We took a pledget, soaked in as much of this bile diluted as it could 

 take up, and applied it to a fresh wound made in the inside of the right thigh of 

 a dog. The pledget was fastened within the skin by some needles. This ap- 

 plication produced no considerable alteration in the dog; he neither appeared 

 sleepy nor stomachless ; but licked his sore readily enough ; and after the 

 pledget was fallen off, the wound healed as in the foregoing experiment. 



10th. About a drachm of the same black bile, mixed with warm water, was 

 injected into the jugular vein of another dog : with which he was not incom- 

 moded, but was as brisk as before the injection, only he appeared very thirsty, 

 and drank with greediness. The next morning we found the wound black and 

 dry, and the dog becoming surly, bit one of the assistants. The two ligatures 

 made for the injection were taken away, without any blood running out. We 

 applied a dossil, charged with the ordinary digestive, and kept on by a bandage; 

 and about 4 hours after the dressing, we found the dog dead, having lived 23 

 hours after the injection. Having opened him, we found that his heart beat 

 still with violence, and after the beating ceased, there was no blood either in the 

 ventricles or the auricles. This liquor crouded together in the great vessels, 

 appeared of a lively red, and very fluid, without any of those concretions that 

 we constantly observed in all the bodies that died of the plague. Here appeared 

 neither internal nor external signs of the plague. 



nth. An inhabitant of Montpelier, aged about 30 or 35, very fat and 

 robust, of a sanguine complexion, having had a fall on the pavement, received 

 a simple wound on the upper part of his forehead on the right side. This being 

 neglected, brought on an erysipelas all over his face, which was accompanied 

 with a swelling of the left parotid. This appeared and disappeared thrice from 

 morning till night. The erysipelas came suddenly on ; he grew delirious, and 

 died after 15 or 20 days illness, reckoning from the fall. On the opening of 

 the body, we found a quantity of water between the skull and the dura mater. 

 The brain, which was firmer than ordinary, was a little red, and part of the 

 pia mater covering the hinder part of that viscus, appeared inflamed. There 

 was about half a septier of water, of a yellowish colour, shed in the cavity of 

 the breast. The great right lobe of the lungs was a little hard on the upper 

 part : the heart had a polypose concretion in each ventricle : we found likewise 

 2 French pints of limpid water in the lower belly. All the fat of his body was 

 yellow : the liver appeared a little swelled : and the gall-bladder almost empty, 

 not having above 2 drachms of yellow bile in it. That bile of this body mixed 

 with 2 ounces of warm water, was injected into the crural vein of a dog. The 



