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Wright) gave each rat a quarter of a grain of powdered strychnia, and 
two hours afterwards a quarter and half a grain more to one of the three, 
t morning at four o'clock they were all alive, and had eaten food 
quarter of a grain. In about three hours afterwards he applied the usual 
test, but could not detect the least indication of strychnine in the precip- 
so abstracted from the fluid, forming by coagulation (say, for instance, in 
his idea had oceurred 
heart empty of blood, whilst the left was full, some of the blood being 
liquid and some clotted. The stomach was carefully secured at bot its 
orifices, and detached. On making an incision, su at not 
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seeing the paper in which I had wrapped the pill, naturally expecting 1t 
would have been reduced to a pulp by the fluid of the stomach. I, there- 
fused. In this case, also, none of the absorbed st 
in the blood or any part of the animal, although the greatest care was ob- 
served in making the experiments. .The lecturer, who was listened to 
throughout with great attention, added that he had made further © 
periments, which he thought proved that it was highly probable a more 
- less insoluble compound of organic or animal matter with strychnia 
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