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this last was grown very black, and there was much extravasated lymph between 

 it and the skin, which stunk intolerably ; but Dr. A. could not perceive, that 

 the viscera were at all discoloured. 



July 4. — Another fowl, half grown, was bitten in 1 places, and the medicine 

 was applied : half an hour after which, the fowl eat meat, and seemed much re- 

 covered, but was dead in 14 hours time. 



July 6. — Two half-grown cocks were bitten ; the first was bitten but once, 

 yet violently, and turned black immediately ; it had the medicine applied, eat 

 meat afterwards, and seemed pretty well ; yet died in 20 hours. The other 

 was bitten 2 or 3 times, but hardly wounded, and not half so much discoloured 

 as the former : they bathed the wound with viper-oil, but the fowl died in 

 little more than 1 hours, 



July 8. — Two young pigeons were bitten; the one had viper-oil applied im- 

 mediately, but sickened, and died in 4 hours : the other had olive-oil applied, 

 and recovered perfectly ; the flesh beginning to return to its natural colour in 

 about an hour's time. 



July 17. — The woman was bitten in the public hall of Brazen-Nose College, 

 in presence of Dr. Frampton, Dr. Frewin, and several other physicians. Dr. A. 

 and many others. It had been suspected, that they played some tricks with 

 their vipers, and made them spend their rage and venom beforehand : to obviate 

 which a physician of the company had provided some fresh vipers, which he 

 himself had caught a day or two before, and kept in his own custody till that 

 time. The woman was bitten twice by one of these, and received 3 wounds, 

 one in the thumb and 2 in the fore-finger. Her hand was soon swoln and 

 spotted, and her finger turned black. After 23 minutes, she applied the medi- 

 cine to her hand, but not farther than the swelling went ; in which she was 

 perhaps to be blamed, and probably the following illness was in some measure 

 occasioned by it. She walked home very well in appearance: but about 3 hours 

 after the bite was received, she grew very sick, and in great pain ; was seized 

 with vomiting, purging, and fainting-fits, which continued all night, insomuch 

 that her life was despaired of: nor had she any sleep till noon the day following. 

 Dr. A. saw her about 6 that evening, when she awaked, and he found her very 

 well in spirits, but complaining of most acute pains in her finger. Her arm, 

 shoulder, back, and breast, on that side, were much swoln and inflamed : all 

 -those parts thus affected were bound up in papers soaked in the medicine. After 

 this there appeared on her finger 2 large bladders, full of a black corrupt mat- 

 ter ; and this not only on the wound, but one of them on a distant part of the 

 finger from it. She could not be persuaded to open them, which the Doctor 

 believes would have eased her considerably. 



