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. their teethjto fee what difference there might be betwixt them 
and the thorns, this made the DoGtox loofe patience, and fooii 
taking a pinjwhich none of the leaft^ he gave to the firfk 
Pigeon^ that he could lay hands on^ a very deep wound in the 
breaft, which no fooner was got free but began to leap & frisk 
about the room, as if it had not been concerned in the leaft* 
After this, they began in good earnefl. For another Pi- 
geoD was taken and bit in the breaft byboth the Matter- teeth 
of a Vipers head^ that had been cut off the morning betoreithe 
execution being exaftly like that of the day before. The ef^ 
fe<9: wasjthat the Pigeon had the fame fhaking fits^ after which 
falliog upon his belly he died, giving fignes a little be- 
fore of a painful Agony, by his often gaping. His end was 
not only very feofible to him^ but alfo more tedious than that 
of the other dayj for, this lived 5 or 6 minutes after his wounds 
Another having been ferv'd after the fame manner with ano- 
ther head, had the like accidents, and died within a quarter of 
an hour : This Obfervation was made on this other, that his 
wound let out a great deal of blood 5 whereas not fo much as 
one drop was feen to come out of any of the others^ 
All this appearing, as yet but little to the Doftor, to exclude 
the doftrine of Spirits, which now^ began to Idofe ground af^ 
ter fo many experiments of Dead Vipers heads • he took three 
ftalksoutof a Broom, and having fmoothed them, and fliarp^ 
n'd them at the ends after the manner of a Lancet, he drew 
from the gums of fevcral heads enough of that yellow juice 
todawbe twoof thofettalkes v which, being thus moiftned 
with thatliquor,were both put into thebreafts of two Pigeons, 
and there left ^ the like having been done to another with the 
^isfftalk not coverM with that juice, which was at leaft one third 
part bigger and longer than the other two» In a word, the 
two firft died within 4 or 5 minutes, and the laft continues to 
this very day in Signor MagaUtth Pigeon-houfe as brisk and 
as fat as ever i his wound in his breaft^ inflead of having cau- 
led an Inflammation^ is now almofl: perfectly healed, 
Whilft thefc Experiments were making, it came into the 
heads of fome to try another,upon the relation that S'xgn.Vaolo 
deW Ara (lately come from Paw) had made 5 which was, that 
fome had aflerced there, that, to fwallo w a Vipers head was a 
moft certain Prefervative and Remedy againft the biting of a 
Viper 
