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moil: venomous Animals without receiving any harm there- 
by; adding, that, which is afcribed to the vertue of their 
Antidote , ought to be attributed to the nature of thofe kinds 
of Poyfons, which are no poyfons , when they are (wallow’d, 
( for which Dodtrine he alfo alledges Cel (us ) butonely when 
they are put into wounds. Which alfo has been noted by Luw 
<&an } who introduces Cato thus fpeaking 
Noxia ferpentum eft admifto [anguine peftis, 
Morfu virus habent 3 & fat urn dents minmtur y 
Pocuia merte parent. 
And what alfo fome Authors have affirm'd, videl. That it is: 
mortal, to eat of theFiefh of creatures killed by Vipers ; or 
to drink of the Wine wherein Vipers have beep drowned;or 
to fuck the wounds that have been made by them, is by this 
Authourobferved to be wide of truth. For he affures, that 
many perfons have eaten Pullets and Pigeons , bitten by Vi- 
pers, without finding any alteration from it in their health. 
Qn the contrary, he declares., That it is a foveraign Remedy 
againft the biting of Vipers, to fuck the wound; alledging 
an Experiment, made upon a Dog, which he caufed to be 
bitten by a Viper at thenofe, who by licking his own wound 
fayed his life. Which he confirms by the example of thofe 
people, celebrated in Miftory by the name o tMarfi and P fillip 
whofe Employment it was, to heal thofe, that had been bitten 
by Serpents, by fucking their wounds. 
3. He adds, that althoughGafen and many modern Pbyfttu 
ans do affirm, that there is nothing, which caufeth fo much 
thirft, as V ipers-fleffi, -yet - he hath experimented the contrary 
and known divers perfons, who did eat theflefh of Vipers at 
all their meals, and yet did affure him, they never were lefsdry, 
then when they obferved that kind of Diet. 
4,, As for the Salt of Vipers, whereof fome Chjmiffs have 
