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of my experiments: the others, viz. the fifhes (a), 
the infects (h), and the reptiles (c), were not killed, 
tho’ feveral of them feemed to be diforder’d by it. 
I have verified what M. de la Condamine fays, in 
the account of his voyage, relating to the ufe, that 
may be made of animals killed by this poifon, with- 
out apprehending any ill confequences to thofe, who 
eat of them. In effedt, I have eat rabbits, which I 
had killed with this poifon, and afterwards made fe- 
veral other perfons eat of them ; and not one of us 
perceived the leaft indifpofition. 
journal of the Experiments . 
On the 6 of June 1748, I made a little wound, of 
about three lines long, in the left hinder leg of a 
rabbit of fix months old : into this wound I put a bit 
of cotton foaked in the poifon of Ticunas : the crea- 
ture died fuddenly in my hands, without giving the 
lead: indication of having felt pain, and even before I 
could apply a bandage to the wound. 
The fame day I repeated this experiment on eight 
other rabbits, and on four dogs: they all died in a 
minute, or thereabout. 
The feventh of June of the fame year I dipp’d the 
point of a lancet into the poifon : and with this in- 
itrument I prick’d four cats and two rabbits, fome 
L in 
{a) Thofe, which I employed, were the carp, the eel, the pike, 
the gudgeon, the barbel, and the tench. 
(£) As caterpillars, bees, different flies of two and four wings, 
die grillo-talpa, butterflies, may -flies. 
(c) For example, earthworms, vipers, fnakes. 
