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VIL An Account of fome Experiments on the Ff^ 
fe6ts of the Poifon of Rattle-Snake. By 
Captain Hall. Communicated by Sir Hans 
Sloane, Bar. Med- Reg ijfc» 
I N South Carolina on the loth o? May, Anno 172c, 
having got a fine healthful Rattle-Snake about four 
feet long, I perfwaded three or four Gentlemen, and 
one Mr. Kidwell a vSurgeon, to afilli me in making 
fome Experiments on the Efledfs of its Poifon. 
We got three Curr-Dcgs, the biggeft nor larger than 
a common Harrier, and the leaft about the blgnefs 
of the larged fiz’d Lap' Dog, all of them fmooth hair- 
ed. 
The Snake being ty’d and pinn’d down to a Grafs- 
plat, we took the larged of them, which was a white 
one, and leaving tied a Chord round his Neck, fo that 
it fhould not drangle him, another Perfon held one 
end while 1 held the other j the length was not 
more than four Yards each way from the Dog. 
Immediately on our bringing the Dog over the 
. Snake, the Snake railed himfelf near two feet, and 
bit the Dog as he was jumping ; the Dog yelpt, by 
which I perceived he was bitten ,• and upon it I pull’d 
him to me, as fad as I could, and perceived his Eyes 
fixt, his Tongue between his Teeth, which were clo- 
fed, his Lips fo drawm up as to leave his Teeth and 
Gums bare; In fliort, he was quite Dead in a quarter 
of a Minute ; but one Perfon (befide my felf) was 
of Opinion it was in half that time ; The fird 
was the Opinion of tlie By-danders, who were five or 
S f fix; 
