CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. xix 



Every person present seemed convinced 

 that the virulence of the Wourali poison was 

 completely under the command of the operator ; 

 and that, by this artificial process, its malignant 

 qualities could always be subdued. In a word, 

 the company present came to the conclusion 

 that it can be safely applied to a human being, 

 labouring under hydrophobia, one of the most 

 terrible and fatal of all the diseases that have 

 ever afflicted mankind. 



Mr. Sibson has most wonderfully improved 

 the bellows, and thus rendered the process 

 much less laborious. He has by him a fair 

 store of the very poison which I brought from 

 the forests of Guiana in 1812. See the Wan- 

 derings. I myself have also a good supply of 

 it, as pure and as potent as it was on the day 

 in which I procured it. 



In case of need, an application, either to 

 Mr. Sibson at the General Hospital in Not- 

 tingham, or to myself at Walton Hall near 

 Wakefield, will be most punctually attended to ; 

 and as railroad speed is now almost proverbial, 

 a communication with every part of the country 

 is put upon the easiest footing possible. 



But I beg the reader in the most earnest 

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