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4,52. Temperature 96°. 
4.538-54. Respirations 44. 
4.56-57. Respirations 31, 
4.58. Temperature 96°. 
5.00-OL. Respiration, wheezing pants. 
5.01-02. Respirations, wheezing pants, 21. 
5.02. Temperature 96°. Death without struggles. 
The Kffect of Glycerine.—Glycerine seems to dissolve the poison and to partly destroy 
its effectiveness, though this seeming injury may be due to the slowness with which the 
glycerine is absorbed, preventing the poison from reaching the circulation rapidly enough 
to result fatally. 
EXPERIMENT X.—Paper containing saliva of four bites was placed in about forty minims of glycerine 
and left for some hours. The glycerine, having been extracted, was injected in the breast muscles of a 
pigeon at 12.10 P.M., December 4, 1896. 
1.00. Still no effect. 
5.15. Still no effect. 
December 5. Well, but with yellowish-white swelling on breast. 
December 17. Well, but breast muscles sloughing. Used in experiment XII. 
EXPERIMENT XI.—December 4, 1896. Since it was quite possible that the poison had not been 
dissolved by the glycerine, the paper used in the last experiment was well washed in alcohol to remove 
glycerine, and then, after the alcohol had been removed by pressure and evaporation, was placed in water 
(thirty minims). This water was injected into a pigeon at 3.15 P.M. 
3.30. No signs of poison. 
5.15. No effect yet. 
December 5. Well. 
December 8. Well. 
Exprrment XII.—December 17. Saliva of the lower jaw from about three bites was collected 
and divided into two parts, one slightly larger than the other. The larger part was then soaked in glycerine, 
a little more than one-half of which was afterward injected in leg of pigeon used in experiment X. 
4.35 P.M. Injected subcutaneously. 
5.30. Seems slightly drowsy ; ‘otherwise well. 
December 18. Found dead.* 
ExpermMENT XIII.—December 17, 1896. To test the power of the saliva used in experiment XII 
the smaller portion of the saliva-soaked paper was placed in a small quantity of water, and one-half of 
the resulting solution injected in the breast muscles of a pigeon, December 18. 
4.07. Injected. 
4.30. Bird sitting; staggers when raised. 
* Death may have been due to the rather extensive sloughing of the pectoral muscles, but that this was the 
case does not seem probable. 
