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quantity of Venice treacle, or mithridate, he is not certain which, that he 

 divided into two potions, each about 2 ounces; to one of them he put a large 

 quantity of diaphoretic antimony. 



The first dog the snake bit on the inside of the thigh, and died so soon, 

 viz. in about half a minute, that we could not get the potion, which was that 

 without antimony, down his throat soon enough to expect it could have 

 effect. 



About an hour after, the second dog was bitten, and had 2 punctures or 

 holes in the fleshy part of the inside of his fore left leg, which bled more 

 than any before; they immediately got down his throat that preparation with 

 antimony. He soon grew very sick, and strove to vomit, but brought up 

 very little, if any; he frothed at the mouth and bit at the grass, which he 

 champed, as if he were mad; and indeed every one was afraid of him. He 

 was therefore put into a room and there kept till next morning, where he 

 seemed to be recovered; they threw him some meat, which he eat, so he was 

 let out and he went home. About a month after that the dog's hair came off, 

 and his master killed him. 



The third dog which he bit was a shaggy spaniel, about IJ- hour after the 

 second. He was bitten on the fore part of his right shoulder. The dog seemed 

 to bite at the place himself, and was very sick for that whole evening, viz. about 

 2 or 3 hours; but without any means or application he recovered. 



Of some remarkable appearances in the Brains of three Persons who died of 

 Epilepsy, with an Account of the Substance of the Cataract; in a Letter from 

 Mr. Walther Curieusus Rhcetus* to Mr. I. F. Woolhouse, F. R. S. N° 399, 

 p. 315. ^n Abstract from the Latin. 



1. A man aged 35, of a spare habit of body, who had previously been sub- 

 ject to a pain in the forehead and to bleeding from the nose, on the cessation 

 of which he lost the sense of smelling, was afterwards seized with epileptic fits; 

 of which he had frequent attacks for the space of 2 years, when he at length 

 died. On opening the head, the anterior part of the brain, on the right side 

 about the region of the crista galli, was found hard and callous, and strongly 

 adhering to the dura mater; in the anterior part of the brain on the left side, 

 there was found some extravasated blood. In other respects the appearances 

 of the brain were natural. 



2. A woman aged Oo, who at the same time laboured under anasarca, died 

 after repeated and very violent attacks of epilepsy. On opening the head, a 



* RhcEtus, a Grison ? 



