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quantity of poison being directly injected into a vein, as 

 in cobra-poisoning, nor are they necessarily immediately 

 followed by paralysis and death, being not mere pre- 

 cursors of the extinction of function of the nerve- 

 centres ; but they may, on the contrary, be for the time 

 perfectly recovered from (see Experiment YI.), some- 

 times an interval of half an hour of perfect health 

 elapsing. 



The following experiments show the contrast between 

 the two poisons very well. 



Experiment XVI. 



One centigramme (•154 grain) of dried daboia-poison 

 was dissolved in one cubic centimetre of distilled water, 

 and the solution was injected, with great care, just 

 beneath the skin of the leg of a fowl. 



3.10 P.M. Injection. 



3.11 P.M. Slightly lame in the leg in which the 

 injection was made. 



3.12 P.M. Violent convulsions. 

 3.12| P.M. Dead. 



Experiment XVII. 



The same quantity of dried cobra-poison dissolved in 

 the same quantity of water (namely, one centigramme in 

 one cubic centimetre), as in the last experiment, was 

 injected just beneath the skin of the leg of a fowf.] 



3.80 P.M. Injection. 



