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Thorax exhibited that comlition in which they 

 are usuallv faund after death from otlier 

 poisons. 



Rut ihi) brain and tbc du ra mater shewed 

 marks of a most violent and cxcessive affection, 

 In sorae instarices the inflammation anil redness 

 of the diira matura was so strong, that on first 

 inspection, I siipposed it to be the conseqiience 

 of a blow previously roceived, iintil I was 

 taup^ht by repeated examinations that this is a 

 universal appearance after death from T&hettili. 



I am not at present at leisure, nor am I properly 

 prepared, to investigate fullj the operation of 

 the two poisons described on the animal system, 

 or to ehicidate their effects bj a comparison 

 v/ith olhcr poisons. The series of experirnents 

 I have proposed to mjself, and which are neces- 

 sary for the purpose, is by no meaos finishedj, 

 nor does my situation at present afford me those 

 opportunities of scicntific consultation, which 

 such an iiivestigation requires; it remain* for 

 a future period also, to determine, relatively^ 

 the force of these poisons u ith that of the most 

 venomous Scrpcnts ; the Tshettik exceeds, per- 

 haps, in violence, any poisoii hitherto known. 

 It shews its effocts pociiliarly and almost exclu- 

 sivcly on the brain and iiervous systera. 



