54 Al< '£BSÏY ON THE OOFAS, OR 



wounded bj a dart covered with the pure resinf^ 

 recovcred after hemg very partially affected ; it 



bas also been remarked above, that iii the pre- 

 paratioü of the dried jiiice of the Antshar, the 

 resiooos parts are throvvn away. The strength 

 of the poisoö reo^ains onimpaired^ if carefully 

 preserved a nurnber of years, as is evirie jt from 

 the experiments made at different periods of its 

 age. 



Takeo into the stomicb of qaadrupeds, the 

 Tshettik likewise acts as a snost violent poison^ 

 but it reqoires aboüt twice the period to pro» 

 duce the same effect whieh a wouad produces» 



In the 26th Exper. its operation internallj is 

 detailed, and the appearances after death ars 

 described in the account of the dissection. 



But the stomaehs of Fowls can resist its ope* 

 ration; having mixed about doublé the quanti- 

 ty generalij adheriog to a dart, with the food 

 of a fowl;, it consumed it without shewing anj 

 marks of indisposition. 



The poison of the Antshar does by no means 

 act so violentlj on quadruped»^ as that of the 

 Tshettik. I have given it to a dop ; itproduc- 

 ed at first nearly the same sjmptoms as a punc- 

 ture; oppression of the hcad, tvvitchiiigs^ faiut- 



