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howled violently fur a few minutes; the 
wounded limb soun became paralytic; 
in ten minutes the dog lay senseless and 
convulsed; in thirteen minutes he was 
dead, 
2. A dog of asmailer size and younger 
was bitten in the hind leg, when he was 
instantly plunged into the warm nitre 
bath, prepared on purpose, The wound 
was scarified and washed with the solu- 
tion of lunar caustic; while some of it 
was poured down his throat. Phe dog 
died in the same time, and with the same 
symptoms, as the former. 
3. Alter an interval of one day, the 
same snake was made to bite a young 
puppy in the hind leg; but above the 
part bitten a ligature was previously tied: 
the wound was scarified, &c. as in the 
other. The dog did not scem to feel any 
other sjury than that arising from the 
ligature round his leg; half an hour after 
being bitten, the ligature dressing, &c. 
were removed. The ‘dog soon began to 
sink; breathed quick, yot convulsed, and 
died.” 
4and 5. Two other dogs were bitten ; 
and the wounds simply scarified, and 
dressed with the lunar caustic, they con- 
tinued well for two hours; but died in 
the course of the day. 
8. A dog being bitten by the enake, 
the wound was washed with volatite al- 
kali; and the same medicine given in- 
ternally, diluted with water, and repeated 
at intervals. This dog was shortly after 
convulsed and died in three hours. An- 
other with the same means used, died in 
eighteen minutes. 
42. A young puppy was bitten in the 
ear, and exactly half a minute afterwards 
the ear was cut off. The wound bled 
freely; the dog continued well for half 
an huor, then drooped, and in half an hour 
more died. 
‘These experiments will perhaps serve lit- 
tle other purpose than to prove the quick 
and destructive operations of the poison 
of this kind of serpents, and of the inefli- 
cacy of the most celesrated remedies, 
which have hitherto been discovered. 
It is certain however, that upon larger 
animals the progress would have been 
neither so rapid nor destructive; and 
upon the human body it is also probable, 
that the remedies might have had greater 
- SUCCESS. 
The cau de luce has lately been found 
to have ths very best effects in bites of 
serpents on the human body. 
kt is somewhat singular, that at Ma- 
dras, and on the Coromandel coast in ge- 
neral, there are hardly any other diseases 
but those of the liver; while at Bengals 
that disorder is not so frequent; ‘but 
there are several others which inake up for 
this deficiency. 
Tt has been supposed that the dry sane 
dy soil of the Coromandel coast tends, 
by reflecting the heat of the sun, to pre- 
duce liver “complaints wile the low 
marshy grounds of Bengal, on the other 
hand, are more favourable to the produc 
tion of fevers, &c. 
Madras does not experience the little 
winter which Bengal does in December 
and January ; bat it is more refreshed by 
sea-breezes, than the latter place can 
possibly be, on account of its inland situ. 
ation. 
It has been a question, what constitu 
tions are best adapted to stand the effects 
of this climate; the gross, the lean, the 
sprightly, or the serious? If I can trust 
to my own observations, | would say the 
gross and sprightly: as I have generally 
seen the moping, melancholy, lean, and 
irritable people, the first affected with 
sickness. 
There are some very pleasant roads 
about Madras; that however whieh leads 
out to the Mount is extremely beautiful, 
being hned with trees on each side, 
whose foliage is so close, that in the even- 
ings and mornings the sun is completely 
excluded, and of course at these eek 
the’ road is crowded with all ranks and 
descriptions of people, both Europeans 
and natives. 
St, ‘Thomas's Mount isa ples unt little 
elevation, in the shape of a cone, on the 
summit of which is a Portuguese chapel, 
and a house for the Padré who officiates 
here; it is about six or seven miles from 
Madras, in a westerly direction, and 
‘forms the principal land-mark for ships 
approaching this settlement from the 
southward, the white buildings on its top 
making a conspicuous figure. 
It is believed by the. Portuguese that 
St. Thomas sutfered martyrdoin in a cave 
on thismount; having fled from his perse- 
cutors, he was discovered here ard trans- 
fixed by the lance of a Brahmin, The 
padré shews a painting representing this 
transaction, and likewise points out the 
spot where it is said to have happened. 
From this place there is a very fine 
view of Madras and its environs, with an 
extensive prospect of the Coromandel 
coast, along the whole of which, the surf 
breaking in three distinct lines and the 
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