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after fhe returned to give me thanks for 

 faving her Life, being two Perfons that were 

 bit with the fame Dog, were dead, whillt 

 flie remained under Cure, and therefore (he 

 was the fuUier convinced fhe owed her life to 

 me but of this I fliall give a more particu- 

 lar Inftance by and by. But the Poifons of 

 Vipers feems to be like the injecting of Li- 

 quors into the Veins of Creatures Dr. Mou^ 

 lin and 1 made many Experiments of this 

 Nature together, and I have made many more 

 by my felf. We once,I remember,injeded half 

 a Dram of Allom into the Jugalar-Vein of 

 a Dog before the Royal Society^ ( the Allom 

 being only dilTolved in a little Water) which 

 within fomething lefs than one Minutes time 

 was fo abfolutely dead, as not to have the 

 leaft Convullive Motion ; and I have done 

 the like with many other things befides Allom^ 

 but with fome things it is more curdled and 

 broken, than with others j and will dif- 

 fer much both as to colour and confiftence. 

 Salt-Petre kills much as quickly as Allom, 

 but then the Blood in the Heart looks very 

 florid, fmooth, and even. 1 wifti fome Per*^ 

 fon of Obfervation and Leifure would profe- 

 cute thefe fort of Experiments, and make 

 Injeftions of the feveral things moft ufed ia 

 Phyfick into the Veins of Creatures, both in 

 quantities, and into different Veins, as into 

 the Thigh-veins of fome Dogs, and Jugalars 

 of fome others, and in much lefler quantities 

 of fuch things as kill fuddenly ^ for in the 

 little time I have fpent in thefe fort of Ex- 

 periments, I eafily perceive notable difcove- 

 ries might be m^de thereby : One Dog that 



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