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witnefs to a third cafe, where we could not procure thcfe pills. 
A fervant of Lieutenant Smith, in the fame regiment with my- 
felf, was bitten. The lieutenant gave him nothing but brandy 
and hot Madeira wine, and kept him in a ftate of intoxication 
for twenty-four hours ; the next day the pain was gone, but 
the man continued indifpofed for fome time. 
A foldier in the feventy-eighth regiment, after a wound from 
a ferpent, was fo ill that his whole body was difcoloured, and 
he was conlidered as incurable by all the furgeons in the army.- 
In this cafe we could not have recourfe to the Bramin's pills 
and it was thought that nothing but the ftrength of his confti- 
tution could have faved him* 
Another circumftance, refpeding the bite of fnakes, which 
happened near Bengal, will not, I flatter myfelf, be deemed 
unworthy of attention : when a brigade was cantoned, the 
hoLifes had not been inhabited for fome time before. Soon 
after they went in, there were fome men found dead in the 
morning ; for which fadl they were totally unable to account. 
The dififler, however, was foon difcovered to proceed from the 
bite of fnakes. On fearching, they found vaft numbers of thefe 
animals in the holes of the mud- walls ; the greatefl part of which 
they killed. They were then advifed to lay a quantity of 
onions and garlick about their rooms, in the infide ; and after 
that, no further trace of them were perceived. 
It is much to be wifhed that any certain remedy for the bite 
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