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tamedl Antidotes, or even Hellebore couldin tfieleaftfave^ 
tho not very untimely given him^ 
The cafe indeed rarely occurs^ and therefore cannot 
well be obferved in all due circumftances in order to its 
clearer underftanding^ and confequently cure,* we (hall ~ 
venture however to lay down fome few chings to falveit 
by. --:: ■ : ^ . ■ 
FirJl.Thzt ^, Corton had fome of the organic parts of his bo- 
dy transformed into, or affeded after the nature of Dog, 
efpecially the Gula^ Tongue &c 5 fo that what was offered 
to him in the ered poftureof a min was very frighcfuL 
as vsreilasdifficult for him totake, becaufe. agaiBft his 
nature]^ as much as it would be for us to get a dcg to ; drink 
ftanding upon his hinder legs. 
But yet this is not alL for when he was turned upon his 
bellyj and would have adted the Dog^ he yet could not 
drink > and tho' he frequently put out his tongue and lapr^ 
yet he c-ould not endure to take any thing in to his mouch of 
liquor, as tho fomeching had hindred him within. , 
; Therefore we may imagine he was alfo mivulfed in thofe 
pinsyorfwelled : but this We cannot grant, for the contrary 
does plainly appear, becaufe he could caft any thing i^nto 
his mouth and fwallow it s as he did very many times ftif 
Boltis^s^ more nimbly as to the fwallow, then any man rea- 
fonably could befuppofed to do^» that was fo weakened: 
for I faw no difference betwixt thofe he fwallowed an hour 
or two before his death, and the very firil he took. 
Secondly^ That his Spittle was envenomed i for as oft as he 
fwallowed irjfhisStonaack vehemently abhorring it jir wen t 
to his heart (as we fay), and was even prefent ceaih to him. 
And fo liquid things coming nearer to the coniifienceof 
^^ttiei might the rat hfer;??^?^'^/'^ [alivam> and therefore gave 
him a greater terror and difficulty to fwallow^ , then foiid 
things. 
Andthat his Spittle chiefly was infected with the venome 
of the Dog,feems probable fronuhefe reafons alfo. r« Be- 
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