250 EFFECTS OF THE JUICE OF THE PAPAW. 



ternally by the living animal, or applied topically 

 to the animal when recently killed; and that, as 

 this effect is so general, as to extend itself universal- 

 ly to every muscular part of the body, and to the 

 fibrin of the blood of a living animal, which hap- 

 pens to take it internally in its uncooked state; 

 and that the same effect is not sensibly produced on 

 the flesh of animals which may eat the Papaw fruit, 

 after it has been cooked, we must infer, that the 

 action of fire, in a great measure, destroys the ac- 

 tive principle on which this effect depends; and 

 as this principle, whatever it may be, evidently ex- 

 hales from the tree, it most probably is easily vola- 

 tilized by heat. 



