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on feveral forts of birds ( a ), and they all died with 
pretty much the fame fymptoms as thofe above- 
mentioned, and in as fhort a fpace of time. I made 
fix of thefe birds fwallow a good dofe of fugar, be- 
fore inoculating them with the poifon : three of them 
efcaped death, but the other three died very foon. 
Moreover, the moment after inferting the poifon into 
four other birds, I made them fwallow a good deal 
of fugar i but that did not prevent their dying, ah 
moft as foon as thofe, that had taken none. I 
made other birds fwallow fea-falt inftead of fugar ; 
and not one of them recovered, whether they took 
it before or after the application of the poifon. 
July the 16, I put a little of the fame poifon into 
a fmall wound, which I had made in the right fore- 
foot of a young rabbit. The moment this opera- 
tion was performed, I cut off that foot above the 
place of infertion of the poifon. I dreffed the dump, 
and the animal did not die. Some days afterwards, I 
repeated this experiment on two large dogs, and on 
a lamb ; and not one of them died. 
July the 20, I made a tight ligature on the right 
hinder leg of a young rabbit, in order to fee, if I 
could thereby prevent the poifon from penetrating 
too quick into the mals of blood. That done, I put 
a drop of the poifon of Ticunas and Lamas into a 
fmall wound, which I made below the ligature : but 
this notwithftanding, the animal died inlefs than two 
minutes. 
July 
(«) As pigeons, hens, blackbirds, fparrow3, ducks, geefe, and 
magpies. 
