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be livid next inorning,3nd worth ootliing, S^c. He mentions 
likcwife an Expcriment,by him intended to be madej of put- 
ting forae of the fomiog of a mad dog into the wound of a 
found dog, to lee whether chat will make hiai mad aiio^ and 
whether it be not the breath of the biting dogjwhich by its agi- 
tated ipirits caufeth that commotibo of luadnefs. Whereupon 
he obfcrves funher, that the breath coiDing from the fpoi gy 
Lungs of vipers enragedj is of greater force then all thofe he 
hath Ipoken of^and £hat*tis full oi bilious fpirits when they are 
angred. Where he examins^whether FrJ?ers have a paflage af- 
cending from the Bladder of Gall to the throat, as he sffirms 
he hath found in ^«^^/^and particularly in thofe of the Grotta 
del Serpi ncsLT Bracciap^Oyhmom for curing ftnbborn maladies 
by big fnakes winding themfelves about the bodies of the fick 
expofed there 5 of which he affirms to have feen the Experi^ 
mem himfelf»^ 
Heconcludeth the whole with obferving, i.Thata^ Vipers 
are eafily provoked, fo they arc very gentle when their bile is 
not agitated 5 and that it may be faid , they know thofe 
that tend themj who take them out of their tuns with whole 
kandfulls innoxioufly.s.That Vipers do exceedingly abound in 
SpiritSj w^hence they are fo proper to reftore the aged, and to 
prolong their days f and that the heart or hver ol a viper is 
one of the greateft Alexitery's in the world, and adiiurably ef« 
ficacious in malign feverfo 
We mufl.not omit to take notice her^^that this Author p 17, 
18 ment ions^ that the Gentlemen of the Jcademy of .England 
(for fo he is pleafed to call them) do afcribe the venom of 
Wa[pszv\d Bees to the Laceratien that is made by the ftiDgsof 
thofe creatures. 
Whom he means by this y^r^i^;;2y3 we know not, unlefs it be 
the R Society^Vi/ho yet never publiih*c any thing as theirs, whe- 
ther of this or any other kindj f he mean the Micro^raphj, com- 
poiedby M,Hgc\,b Men^ber of that Body,the contents of that 
book, however licenfcdhy ih^t Society as ingenious^or of any 
other, thus honoured, ought by no means to be taken for the 
fenfe of that Body.But neither does that Book affirm any fuch ; 
thingjbut plainly obferveSjthat the faid laceration of the ftiog* 
jng animal is followed by a virulent liquor which is there made 
