44 AN ESSAY ON THE O OPIS, OK 



On diss:ection his stomach was found natiiral 

 and contiiined the food lately taken in: alf 

 the Yïscera of the abdomen wei e also natural. 

 In the Thotax the vense cavse were faand com- 

 pletelj filled and the aorta partiallj filled with 

 blood, the Jungs still retained a fiorid coloür. 

 Oo removing the eraaium and exposing thebrain 

 the vvhole surface of the dura mater was fomid 

 in dame d, and the vess^^ls were injfxted with 

 blood ; that part covering the riglit lobe in par- 

 tic ui ar was in a state of the bisrhest inSamma- 

 tion ; it exhibited externallj a livid blaish 

 colonr r on the internat surface (of tbe dura 

 mater) tbc fluid had been fbrced out of tke ves- 

 sels by the violencc of the action^ and it was 

 covered bj a bloody Ijmph, The integuments 

 of the cerebellum were also» stronglj affected. 

 In the vessels of the surface of the brain itself 

 soine marks of inflamniation were also perceived. 

 On tracing the wound no evident marks of i^n- 

 ilammation appeared^ and the remains of the 

 adhering' Poison were evident along Lts course» 



EXPERIMENT XXVI 



(To shew the cffects of the Poison taken 

 internallij.) 

 To a nearly fuU growa dog, about half tbs 



