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^ ia the Vejicks of the Gummes of t he Vipers, is the only 
* and true feat of the Poyfon ; Thaclhis Juice is not vene* 
' mous;, when taken in at the mourh> but that it is fo^ v;hen 
'let intowoundsmadebya'^V/^^?;' whileftflieis alive, and 
' even in thofe vv hich (he may be forced to make feveral 
' daics after (he is dead , provided the Yellow Liquor do 
'intervene; That the fame Liquor drawn from a live Viper ^ 
' as v^ellas that of a dead one^ isalwaies Venemous, if let 
' into the wound, and mingled with the blood of the Ani- 
' mal wounded , whether it be ufed when liquid, Or after 
'itisdryed, and reduced to a Powder .- and that it kills 
^allldnd of Animals, into the wounds of which it ftiall 
' have bin intromit ted. But Mr. Char as wholly oppofes 
«'this^andafferts, That the Poyfon of a /^^^r is no where 
^ but in her inraged Spirits ; That the Yeltew Juice as wel 
'of a livQ Fiper ^ and even avext one, as of one that il 
' either newly dead, or hath been fo for feveral daies,cons 
* tains in it no poyfon at all ; neither taken inwardly, no* 
*^in the biteing, nor put into the wound^ nor mingled with 
* the blood, nor any other way wherein it may be ufed : 
'That it kills norinfe(5i:snokindof Animals^ and that it 
' is nothing but a meer innocent Saliva, Both infift upon 
Experiments for the proof of their own opinion, which be^ 
ingfufficiently known, IlhaU riot here repeat , or inter- 
pofe in the Controverfy but, fhiU only offer that where* 
as \ Charas makes this Liquor to be a meer Saliva^ and that 
*it ferveth not only to moiften the Ligaments, and to 
^ make them fit for the bending of the Teeth, but alfo to 
^ nourifli them, and to make thofe grow that are there, as 
* it were in a Nurlery 5 and are, if we may fo fay, in ex- 
^ peftation to ferve inftead of the many Teeth , whether 
* thefecome to fail in their force, or fall out of themfelves. 
This I think is not fo well afferted , the offices of the Salt- 
wbeingothers ; and itfeems no way proper for Nourifh- 
ment of the Teeth nay. the Fabrick of the Te^th makes 
I iJew Experiments upn Vipers p. 27. mihi, 
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