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hours, when the effect of the medicine 

 would pass away. The symptoms which 

 the Brahmin led us to expect appeared 

 and passed ofi" in due course ; they are 

 those always produced by stramonium, 

 and I have never entertained any doubt 

 tliat ttis was the remedy used, though 

 tlie Brahmin refused to make it known. 

 Neither do I doubt that the jackal was 

 mad, for these creatures never make 

 such attacks under any other circum- 

 stances. Certain it is that none of the 

 three men bitten had an attack of 

 hydrophobia. 



Datura seeds were formerly used by 

 thieves in Tanjore in order to drug the 

 food of travellers and rob them while 

 insensible. A thief of this class would 

 watch a traveller sit down to his bowl 



