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wholly unacquainted with this Poiforfy 

 and therefore called for an Indian Peii, 

 of the Arrow auk tribe, who was near, 

 and inquired, by an interpreter, if he 

 knew of any remedy ? He replied in 

 the negative ; but added, that the Indian 

 would not die, as no blood had appeared 

 from the prick, which was fcarce per- 

 ceptible. The effects of the Poifon, 

 however, foon became more violent, and 

 not only the hand but whole arm was 

 tumified, attended with a quick, hard* 

 throbbing pulfe, great febrile heat, 

 quick refpiration, and third, together 

 with an inflammation and tumefadlion 

 of the lymphatic fubaxillary glands ** 



* This is a circumftance which tends to con- , 

 firm what the celebrated Dr. Hunter feems to have 

 inconteftibly demonftrated, In his Anatomical Lec- 

 tures^ that the lymphatic and lacteal vefTels uniting 

 into one common canal, called the Thoracic Du£r^ 

 form a diftin£t abforbing fyftem of veflels, the only 

 canals by which any thing can be received into 

 the channel of circulation, unlefs the blood-vefTels 



fuffer 



