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by conftantly labouring, barefooted, iii 

 places frequented by thefe reptiles ma- 

 ny of which have happened within the 

 fphere of my pradtice, which, in every 

 inftance of this kind, has hitherto been 

 attended with a happy fuccefs ; though 

 my follicitude for the prefervation of 

 life, and fear of trufting folely to any 

 Angle medicine, has led me into the ufe 

 of fo many remedies, that it is impoffi- 

 ble to afcribe fuccefs to any one in par- 

 ticular, with certainty. This is here 

 inevitable, on account of the great va- 

 riety of Snakes, and our ignorance of 

 the eflfedts of their poifon, which are 

 extremely various. Sometimes a fatal 

 difiblution of the fluids enfues, but moft 

 frequently a painful tumefadtion and in- 

 flammation of the wounded part, with 

 a fever, &c. is the confequence. In 

 fome inftances the tumefadtion fubfides, 

 without any apparent difcharge j in o- 

 thers it is converted into an abfcefs, 



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