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eluded from the channel of circulation 

 by the lafteals *. When fwallowed by 

 animals, in large quantities, it is ufually 

 ejedted by the mouth. Dr. Brock le/hy, 

 indeed, declares, that in giving a wa- 

 tery folution of the Amazonian Poifon 

 internally to a bird, it became con- 

 vulfed, and died when two drops had 

 fcarcely touched its tongue, tho' it had 

 juft before been dofed with Sugar. This 

 is an experiment which contradidts 



* The Author of our being, by wifely order- 

 ing the mechanifm of our bodies fo that nothing 

 can be received into the fanguiferous veflels except 

 through the minute paflages and ftrainers of the 

 lacteal and lymphatic veflels, and their glands, has 

 happily preferved us from innumerable diforders, 

 to which we mould be otherwife inceflfantly ex- 

 pofed. Olive oil, fo harmlefs when either fwal- 

 lowed, or fmeared over the body, if injected im- 

 mediately into the blood veffels, produces death. 

 And thus the Poifon of Woorara^ taken internally, 

 or applied externally, is harmlefs, tho' nothing 

 can be more fatal when conveyed into the veins 

 or arteries. 



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