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energy, so I thought she might revive. At the last were a few 
kicks. Half an hour after she had expired an auricle was still 
beating. The stomach, caecum and colon were hlled with 
partly digested snake-root. Bladder filled, although she had 
drunk no water or milk for several days. Viscera appeared 
natural. We were not sure whether the veins were a little 
engorged. There had been no constipation of any consequence. 
Total amount of snake-root consumed was between two and 
three ounces. Death occurred 120 hours after first feeding of 
snake-root. 
No. 9. Female rabbit weight 33 ounces, taken from her 
home, Dec. 23. Temperature in next three days taken only five 
times, ranged from 99. S° to 101.9°. At 3:30 P. M., Dec. 20, I 
gave her in milk about ^<4 ounce of extract from same bottle as 
that used for the injection of No. 8 . It had already been twice 
boiled for a long time. I gave her some of this with milk or 
cabliage or lettuce on each of the three succeeding days, about 
one ounce altogether. Dec. 27, 7:30 A. M., temperature 102.2°; 
1 1 :3o A. M., temp., 103.5°; 2:10 P. M., temp., 103.8°; 4:30 P. M., 
temp., 103.5°. 
From Dec. 27 to Jan. 14 her temperature was taken several 
times each day, ninety times altogether. Only twice was it 
found below 102.2°, the maximum being 105.3°. No other 
effect of poison manifest until Dec. 28 when I noticed a trem- 
ulous motion of her sides, and rapid and irregular breathing. 
The motion of the sides seemed a sort of panting, the rate in the 
afternoon about 90 per minute. The next day the panting was 
not noticeable and never became very distinct again, except 
when there was external cause for excitement. Jan. 4, 11:40 
A. M., I began giving each day some milk in which snake-root 
leaves had soaked. Jan. (i, 9:30 P. M., she showed a sort of 
trembling the motion being backward and forward. This has 
been noticed infrequently since, also a little panting and lessen- 
ing of strength. Otherwise she has seemed well. She has been 
well fed all the time. No change of temperature can be attrib- 
uted to withholding the poison after Dec. 29 or giving it again 
in different form Jan. 4-7 and 11-12. No constipation. 
No. 10 . A female rabbit, weight 11 ounces. Jan. 11 , began 
giving her milk in which snake-root had soaked, one third as 
much each time as to No. 9, her w'eight being one-third as great. 
She has shown similar effects. Her temperature changes help 
to understand those of No. 9. Before removing her from the 
warren her temperature at 3:30 P. M. was 102.9°, about like that 
of others of her size but low’er than in the larger rabbits. She 
was carried a mile in the sleeve of a laboratory apron most of the 
way on a warm car. In twenty minutes her temperature had 
fallen to 99 and at 9:30 P. M. to 98.4°. It was higher every 
