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from the vena cava of a dog, which I had killed with 
the poifon of Ticunas* mixed with that of Lamas. 
Thefe animals did not die indeed, but were plainly 
indifpofed ; inafmuch as they loft their vivacity, and 
became very fullen. Eight days after this experi- 
ment, I repeated it on thefe fame animals j and 
then they became ftill weaker and fainter. In fine, the 
next day I made it a third time on them, when they 
languished four or five days, and then died, 
Auguft the 1 5, after having put fome of the fame 
poifon into a wound made in the right hinder leg 
of fix horfes, one of which was a very vigorous 
ftone-horfe, I quickly bled them all in the neck ad 
animi deliquium : two of them efcaped with life ; 
but thofe, that were the weakeft and moft worn out, 
could not ftand againft this operation. Two days 
afterwards, I again pricked thofe horfes, that did not 
die of the laft experiment 5 and then they died in 
about eight minutes. 
I made the following obfervations on thefe ani- 
mals, from the infertion of the poifon to their death. 
The mufcle, wounded by the incifion made for in- 
finuating the poifon, was contracted and relaxed al- 
ternatively, juft as it happens in animals frefli killed : 
this lafted about two minutes ; after which thefe ani- 
mals feem’d reftlefs and impatient, endeavouring to 
fcrape the ground with their fore- foot, which I had 
fufpended in the air with a cord, to prevent their 
running away. Sometimes alfo they made a fudden 
effort, as if to get away, which lafted the fpace of 
two minutes ; after which they grew quiet, and 
amufed themfelves with nipping the grafs, but not in 
a natural manner. Then their refpiration became 
very 
