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AMPHIBIA. 
mal is very lingular, as it exhales from the Lobuli 
of the toes. The animal feeks all places and things 
impregnated with fea fait, and palling over them 
feveral times, leaves this very noxious poifon behind 
it. In July, 1750, I faw two women and a girl, in 
Cairo, at the point of death, from eating cheefe 
new falted, bought in the market, and on which 
this animal had dropt its poifon. Once at Cairo, I 
had an opportunity of obferving how acrid the ex- 
halations of the toes of this animal are, as it ran 
over the hand of a man who endeavoured to catch 
it; there immediately rofe little puftules over all 
thofe parts the animal had touched; thefe were 
red, inflamed, and fmarted a little, greatly refem* 
bling thofe occafioned by the flinging of nettles. It 
emits an odd found, efpecially in the night, from its 
throat, not unlike that of a frog. 
58. Lacerta Scincus f . The Seine. 
Thi s is found in Petraea Arabia near the Red Sea* 
and in Upper Egypt, near the Nile. It is much 
ufed by the inhabitants of the Eafl as an aphrodi' 
fiacum, but not at this time by the Europeans. The 
flelh of the animal is given in powder, with fonts 
ftimulating vehicle; broth made of the recent flelh* 
is likewife ufed by the Arabs. It is brought frofl 1 
Upper Egypt and Arabia, to Alexandria, whence ‘ £ 
is carried to Venice and Marfeilles, and from thence 
to all the apothecaries fhops of Europe. It has beet 1 
tin error, common to almofl all authors, to imagi Iie 
the Scincus to be a filh. 
c;p, Lacerta 
f Lin. Syft. Nat. P. zoj. N. 2Z. 
