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fake of keeping her Hand in a more eafy Pofture 5 and 
then came abroad. The fame Day that the Woman 
was bit, we caufed a Fowl to be bit 5 but the Wound 
was not deep, and little more than a Scratch. No- 
thing was applied to it, and it died in twenty Hours. 
A large Puppy was bit the fame Day three times in the 
Head, had the Medicine applied, but died in about an 
an Hour. It was known that thefe People kept them- 
felves fading thofe Days when the Experiment was to 
be tried upon them : This occafton'd a Sufpicion that 
they might take fome Antidote to prepare their Bo- 
dies : For which Reafon, I order'd the Man to bring 
me fome Vipers after Dinner, iaft Monday , under Pre- 
tence of making fome farther Experiments upon Dogs. 
We had provided at-thefame Time fome frefh Vipers 
without his Knowledge, and then propofedto him to 
be bit by one of them, and apply his Medicine imme- 
diately. His Hand was befmear'd with the Medicine 
in applying it to a young Dog, upon which we had 
juft made an Experiment. Two Vipers were tried 
upon the Man, but neither would bite him : One of 
them attempted it feveral times, and fpilt his Venom, 
but always caught back his Head again, as if there had 
been fomething in the Hand offenfive. Upon this, 
fufpe&ing that the Smell of the Medicine might occa- 
fton it, we made him wafh his Hand, after which an- 
other Viper bit him immediately : But whether our 
Conje&ure was right or not, muft depend upon far- 
ther Trial. The Man received the Bite upon the Joint 
of the Thumb, and the Blood iftued at the two Ori- 
fices. He applied the Medicine inftantly : The Thumb 
.appear'd black foon, the Hand was fwoln, and the 
Tiefti pitted inftantly. He drank a Mug of Ale after 
it 
