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in the head, and the others in the paw. The rabbits, 
died in as fhort time as the preceding day 3 but the 
cats held cut about three minutes. It is to be ob- 
ferved, that each time, that I prick’d an animal, I 
took care to make a new dip of the lancet into the 
The fame day I made a little wound about two- 
lines long in the right hinder leg of a rabbit, and 
put into it a fmall pledget of cotton foaked in the 
extract of opium diluted in a little fpirit of wine : 
but this did not caufe any diforder in the creature 3 
nor did arfenic, which I applied to another in the 
fame manner. In fine, to a third I made ufe of the 
extradt of white hellebore, and I perceived, that this 
animal became reftlefs, nearly as I had obferved in 
the animals, that died by the effedt of the poilon of 
Ticunas. However, this rabbit did not die, hut 
fell into a fudden fit of fury, which went off in 
about eight minutes. I have likewife made trial of 
this extradt on other rabbits, dogs, and cats 3 and the 
effedt was the fame, more or lefs. Of all the ex- 
tracts, which I employed, as, for example, thofe of 
henbane, nightfhade, tobacco, <&c. I found none but 
that of white hellebore, that feem’d to raife fome 
little diforder in the animal oeconomy. The effential 
oil of the lauro-cerafus did not incommode the ani- 
mals, into whofe mafs of blood I conveyed it, in- 
itead of the poifon. 
The eighth of June, with a lancet I made a very 
fmall incifion between the ears of a cat, and with a 
pencil I put into it a drop of the poifdn of Ticunas 
mixt with that of Lamas : in an inftant the creature 
died between my hands. 
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