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and exposed to every misery, she has in return supplied them with 

 a deadly poison, ihe most terrible of all weapons! 



" On procuring a large cobra-di-capello with the venomous 

 teeth and poison-bag entire, it was made to bile a young dog in 

 the hind leg, for which no medicine was made use of. The dog 

 upon being bit howled violently for a few minutes; the wounded 

 limb soon became paralytic; in ten minutes the dog lay senseless 

 and convulsed; in thirteen minutes he was dead. A dog of a 

 smaller size, and younger, was bitten in the hind leg, when he was 

 instantly plunged into a warm nitre bath prepared on purpose. 

 The wound was scarified, and washed with the solution of lunar 

 caustic, while some of it was poured down his throat. The dog 

 died in the same time, and with the same symptoms as the former. 

 After an interval of one day, the same snake was made to bite a 

 young puppy in the hind leg; but above the part bitten a ligature 

 was previously tied: the wound was scarified and treated as the 

 other. This dog did not seem to feel any other injury than that 

 arising from the ligature round his leg. Half an hour after being- 

 bitten the ligature and dressing were removed: the dog soon began 

 to sink, breathed quick, grew convulsed, and died. 



" The symptoms which arise from the bile of a serpent, are com- 

 monly pain, swelling, and redness in the part bitten; great faint- 

 ness, with sickness at the stomach, and sometimes vomiting, 

 succeed: the breathing becomes short and laborious, the pulse 

 low, quick, and interrupted. The wound, which was at first red, 

 becomes livid, black, and gangrenous; the skin of the wounded 

 limb, and sometimes of the whole body, takes a yellow hue; cold 



