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I never lieard)flie was Tick for it, tho’ I inquired ; and 
about ten Days after I faw her in very good Heahh. I 
have heard fifty Relations of the fame kind, and am told 
that thofe Hogs which feed in the Marflies will run 
alter the common fort of Water- Snakes, which are 
not poifonous, and will feed on them ^teedily : And I 
aflure you, in Marylandh^ Augufl was two years 1 faw 
a Hog eat up the Head of a kattle-Snake juft cut off^ 
and while it was gafping very dreadfully ,* and I was 
told, it was a common thing, and it would do them no 
harm. 
On the 10/^ of June 1713, Mr, Thomas Cooper^ a 
Gentleman who pratftifes Phyftck at Charles Towny 
and who was late of Wadham-College Oxon, a very In- ' 
genlous Man, fent to me to let me know, he had 
got a fine Rattle-«Snake which had been taken not 
above 4 Days, was about three feet and a half long, 
and that he defign’d to try whether he could fave 
fome of the Dogs after the Snake ihould bite them. 
He provided a large quantity of Vcnice-T reach or 
Mithridatey I can t pofitively lay whether, which he 
divided into two Potions, each about two Ounces 5 
to one of them he put a large quantity of Diaphoretic 
Antimony. 
The firft Dog which the Snake bit on the lnfide of 
the Thigh, died fofoon (viz»J in about hall a minute, 
that we could not get the Potion, which was that 
without Antimony, down his Throat fooa encxigh to 
exped: it could have Efted. 
Above an Hour after, the fecond Dog was bitten 
by him, and had two Pundures or Holes in ihe 
flelhy part of the Infide of 'his fore left Leg, which 
did bleed more than any I had feen betore : We 
immediately got down his Throat that Preparation 
loith Antimony. He Ibon grew very fick and ftrove to 
vomit, 
