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at all. The amount of poison given in even the -latter 

 <jase was not above a third of the quantity that a daboia 

 could inject. The poison, in both cases, was from the 

 same viper, and extracted at the same place. 



Experiment IX. 



A fowl had two centigrammes (about 03 grain) of 

 dried daboia-poison, dissolved in 0"3 centimetre of waltr, 

 injected subcutaneously into its leg. 



12.17 p.M Injection. 



12.19 P.M. Defecated. 



12.20 p M. Twitchings of the muscles of the neck, 

 followed immediately by violent convulsions and dealii. 



Experiment X. 



A third of a cubic centimetre of water containing in 

 solution about half a milligramme of dried daboia-poison 

 ■was injected into the leg of a fowl subcutaneously. 



3.37 P.M. Injection. 



3.45 P.M. No symptom. 



3.52 P.M. Greatly exaggerated respiratory movement. 



3.55 P.M. Head drooping, beak resting on ground. 



3.59 P.M. Cannot stand. 



4.4 P.M. Lying on its side. 



4.24 P.M. Convulsions. 



4.85 P.M. Dead. 



In these two experiments, also, the same thing'is to 

 he noticed. Two centigrammes produced the most 



