Vf. A Narration of the Experiments made 
June i, 1734. before fever al Members 
of the Royal Society, and others , on a 
Man, who fufferd himfelf to he bit by 
a Viper, or common Adder ; and on 
other Animals likewife bitten by the 
fame , and other Vipers. Drawn up by 
Cromwell Mortimer, M. 2 ). Seer. R. S. 
With fome Remarks on the Cure of the 
Bite of a Mad Dog. 
Illiam Oliver and his Wife, from Bath y who 
follow the Bufinefs of catching and felling 
Vipers y offered thcmfelves to be bit by any Viper 
that fhould be procured, trufting to the Virtue of 
a Remedy they had lighted on by chance in trying Va- 
riety of Things, when the Woman was once acci- 
dentally bitten, and the ufual known Medicines, even 
the Oil of ViperSy had no Effeft in affwaging her 
Pains, efpeciallv of her Bread of the fame Side as the 
Hand in which fhe had received the Wound. This 
Remedy, which is only common Oil of Olives, 
and, from its Ufe with Sallady is vulgarly known by 
the Name of Sallad-Oily recommends itfelf not only 
for its Efficacy, but likewife on account of its being 
readily to be come at, when Accidents happen, there 
being no Town, or even Gentleman’s Houfe in the 
Country, where Sallad-OilXs not at hand $ whereas 
the Oil of Vipers is never to be had, but at Apothe - 
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