52 ATI msSAY ON THE OOPAS, OR 



the unprepared jüice on two bivds of the genu^ 



Ardeo. 



The 18ih and the succeeding Exper. werö 

 made vvith the poison prepared from the Tshet- 

 tik, lts operation is far more vioient and rapid 

 than that of the Antshar, and it afFects the ani- 

 ïjiai sjstem in a different manner ; while the 

 Antshar operates chieflv on the stomach, aud 

 alimeatarj caual, the respiration and circula- 

 tiou, the Tshettik.is determined to the braia 

 and nervous. sjsteni., 



A rehitive comparison of the appearances oii 



dissection, demonstrates iu a strikiog manner the 

 pecüliar operation of eacb. 



The ISth, I9th, and 25th Experinrients, give 

 a genera! view of the effects of the Tshettik oa 

 quadrupeds. 



After the previous symptoms of faintness^ 

 «Irovvsiness, and s^ight convolsions, it acts by a 

 snelden impulse, which like a violetit apoplety 

 prostrale.s at once the wbole nervous sjsteiïi. 



In the ISth and 19th Exper. this sndden ef- 

 fect took pl-ice on the 6ih minute after the 

 wound, and in the 55th Experiment on the 7th 

 minute. the auimals suddeuly starled^ feil dcnya 



