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early morning but what all these things might have escaped 
notice if he had not been watched. He was dull enough at any 
time. 
Nov. 27, he seemed natural. At 9:30 P. M. he was given six 
tablespoonfuls of strong extract. All next morning he “lay 
extended on the floor, seemed indisposed and ate very little. At 
0:30 P. M. he ate a little of the snake-root mixed with potato. 
Nov. 29, rather lively, if anything, actions all natural.” After 
this he showed little, if any, effect of the poison. 
Boy. 
“On IMonday evening at 9:30 P. M. while I held the dog’s 
mouth open a friend poured the extract into the dog’s mouth. 
The dog choked and coughed the extract into my face and 
mouth. I was in the room while the mixtrue was steeping and 
also on the previous evening. At 10:30 I was taken with a fit 
of cramps and the following day was nauseous. Several times 
during the three following days I had fits of trembling, always 
accompanying the extension of limb.” 
— Bartelle H. Reixheimer. 
^Yhile another of my pupils was preparing a decoction of 
snake-root, although it did not affect him, yet on his mother, 
who was not well, it had a sickening effect, though she was not 
in the same room. 
Rabbits. 
No. G. A rabbit, weighing about l}4 lbs. Alton Fuchs 
began feeding snake-root Dec. 9, 9 A. M. It was kept supplied 
most of the time and given nothing else except on one occasion, 
a few lettuce leaves. On the afternoon of Dec. 12 I was sur- 
prised on looking in its box to see the rabbit dead for we had 
seen no trembling nor anything the matter with it. Probably 
if we had watched it that day we would have seen it tremble. 
From our experience with Cat No. 2 we had expected to see 
the legs tremble when unsupported, but later experience with 
rabbits showed that they are not affected in this way. This 
rabbit had taken altogether about 2 ounces of snake-root, mostly 
leaves and branches, likely much more than necessary to kill it. 
The stomach and large intestine were found well filled. No 
inflammation or congestion. 
No. 7. The mate to No. 6, was fed by Oscar Kubach, the 
first snake-root being given in the morning of Dec. 13. He 
noticed some trembling in the evening and more the next 
evening. On Dec. IG it was more pronounced. The rabbit died 
that afternoon between 1 and 3, the interval from the first feed- 
ing being about the same as in the case of No. G. It took both 
