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June the ninth, I put fome of the fame poifon in- 
to Irnall wounds, which I made in different parts of 
infedts, reptiles, and flfhes; and not one of them 
died of it. 
The fame day I made a wound, that penetrated 
into the cavity of the abdomen of a large cat, with- 
out hurting any of the contained parts ; and, with 
a crotchet, holding up the integuments, to keep them 
from touching the abdominal vi/cera of this animal, 
that lay on its back, I introduced the end of a fun- 
nel, and thro’ it poured into the cavity of the abdo- 
men about half a drachm of the poifon of Lamas 
mixt with that of Ticunas. By this management I 
intended, that the edges of the wound fhould not 
be wetted with the poifon, and that it fhould touch 
nothing but the furface of the abdominal vi/cera. 
I made a future of one flitch to join the lips of the 
wound, and I kept the integuments conflantly fuf- 
pended, to prevent their touching the poifon : and in 
this I am certain that I fucceeded. At firfl the crea- 
ture did not feem to fuffer much from this opera- 
tion ; but in an hour’s time he died, with fuch vio- 
lent convulfions in his throat, that it was almoil im- 
poflible for him to breathe. 
June the tenth, I prick’d with a lancet the left 
fore leg of a large fat cat, and put in a drop of the 
poifon of the Ticunas. I let this animal run loofe 
about the room, without drefling the wound. By 
the time he had made a turn round the room, he 
feem’d very refllefs and timorous: his legs fail’d him; 
he lay flat on his belly ; and I remarked, that the 
flcin all over his body trembled confiderably ; the hair 
of his tail flood up, and his paws were agitated with 
