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be found of Ufe for the Bite of Rattle- Snakes, and 
other venomous Animals j efpecially if we confider, 
that in the Fields a Man feldom or never receives 
more than one Bite at a Time, which doth not in- 
fed him with fo much Venom, as was inftilled into 
the Man's Blood, when in thefe voluntary Experi- 
ments he differ'd himfelf to be bitten twice together 5 
and had likewife been bitten three times but about 
a Week or ten Days before 5 fome Remains of which 
Venom, it is highly reafonable to imagine, might ftill 
infed his Blood at the Time he repeated the Expe- 
riments, fo as to make a frelh Quantity of the Ve- 
nom operate with greater Violence upon his Body, 
than if he had been quite a frefh Man, never in- 
feded with the like Poifon before, or at lead at fo 
great an Interval of Time, that his Blood might have 
been intirely free from all Remains of fuch an acrid 
Infedion. From thefe Experiments is it not reafon- 
able to imagine, that the Oil by itfelf may be as 
efficacious againft the Sting of a Scorpion , as if 
Scorpions were infufed in it} 
I fhould not have forborn fo long imparting the 
Knowledge of fo ufeful a Remedy to the Publick, 
had not the poor People injoined every one prefent 
at the Experiments not to divulge, what their Re- 
medy was, till they fhould give me Leave to make 
it publick in thefe Papers, which they have now 
done. The Reafon of their keeping it a Secret, 
was the Hopes of obtaining an handfome Reward 
from generous and charitable People; but now hav- 
ing loft all Profped of any conliderable Recompenfe, 
they were unwilling that the Means of immediate 
Relief to thofe, who fhould have the Misfortune of 
beiag 
