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alter the appearance of the fluids, tho' 

 he once or twice obferved the blood to 

 affume a brownifh colour. 



Againft this Poifon there is no cer- 

 tain antidote difcovered ; and its effedts 

 are fo fudden, that I doubt whether 

 any thing taken by the alimentary paf- 

 fage can adt with fufficient celerity to 

 preferve life. M, de la Condamine, in-* 

 deed, fays, that Salt \ but Sugar, more 

 certainly, is an antidote for the Amazo* 

 nian Poifon : and Sugar, or rather, the 

 Juice of Canes, is commonly thought, 

 by the White Inhabitants of this Co- 

 lony, to prevent the effedts of the Ac- 



portion of blood ; and have found its effects much 

 more flow than on the more healthy and vigorous. 

 This frems to countenance the opinion of Mr. 

 Herijpmt^ that the fatality of this Pcifon refults 

 from a contraction of the vafcular fyftem, by 

 which the capacity of the veffels is fo far dimi- 

 nimed as to obftrucl: the circulation of the fluids. 

 But nothing certain can yet be determined on this 

 fubjeft. ' , 



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