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The blood was of a deep-brown colour, and 
fpouted out in a full flream, which lafled near a mi- 
nute, both from the arteries and veins, which I cut. 
This phenomenon furprized me much, as well as the 
horfe-flayer, who attended me, and allured me that 
he had never feen the like. The mufcles were flac- 
cid, blackilh, and very cold. The heart was fo vio- 
lently contracted, that, in cutting it acrofs, I could 
not fee any appearance of the ventricles, until I pull’d 
their Tides afunder by force. The lungs and liver 
were fluffed with blood. 
In making the fmall wounds, for introducing the 
poifon, great care mud: be taken, to avoid cutting 
any trunk of any artery or vein ; becaufe, when that 
happens, the blood, that iflfues out, carries off a good 
part of the poifon - y which makes the animal pine more 
or lefs without dying ; or, if he dies, it is in a longer 
or fhorter time, according to the quantity of the poi- 
fon, that has got into the veffels, and been mix’d with 
the circulating fluid. This thing happen d to me at 
M. de Reaumur’s houfe, in trying the experiment on 
one of his mares, which had been condemned to the 
layflall. This beaft lived above four hours, becaufe 
the wound bled abundantly, and hinder’d the fuccefs 
of my experiment, for the reafons alleged above. 
On the 1 8 of November I took a little fteel ar- 
row, of the following fhape and flze, 
and poifoned it with the poifon ofTicunas mix’d 
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