They prove that this Poison does not act on FONTANA difcovered, after numerous Trials, that the LUNAR CAUSTIC (Silver combined with Oxygen) was an Antidote to this Poifon, (His DECISIVE EXPERIMENTS on this Head, 1ft. Where he mixed VENOM with the LUNAR CAUSTIC, 2d. Where he applied the LUNAR CAUS PAGE 641 ib. 642 TIC after the Infertion of the VENOM, 644 3d. Where the Animals fwallowed a fo- 645 {His Obfervations on EMETICS, A Query, whether any other Emetic than a metallic Oxyd would have had any beneficial Effect? {Of the Poifon of the TICUNAS, This Poifon being diffolved in the three Mineral Acids, the NITROUS, VITRIOLIC, and MARINE ACIDS, as alfo in the VEGETABLE ACID, was found to have lost its deadly Power, ib. 646 646 ib. This could not arife, fays FONTANA, from its PAGE 647 An Explanation of the different Modes of Action of the 648 The Compofition of the Snake-pill, faid to be a Specific ib. {Of Of CANINE MADNESS, and the Remedies ufu- 648 Why ANTISPASMODICS do not promife, and { 649 MERCURY is reported by SAUVAGE and others When the Patient will not fubmit to this 950 651 ib. {Dr. THORNTON's practice in THIS INSTANCE, ib. SECT. LIV. OF ASPHYXIA FROM Loss OF BLOOD. Why the Patient who is fainting from Lofs of Blood fhould be fuffered to remain quiet, 653 PAGE When the lofs of Blood has been great, TRANSFUSION then furnishes the only Hope, 653 -Dr. RICHARD LOWER was the firft who invented the Method of TRANSFUSING BLOOD from one Animal to another, ib. The celebrated Experiment made on ARTHUR COGA, in England, by Dr. EDMUND KING and Dr. Lower, BARON DE HALLER obferves, that by the 655 ib. Some unfortunate Trials were at length made, ib. 1ft. On a confumptive Patient, and 2d. On a Man of the first Eminence la- the Bowels. It was prohibited by the KING'S MANDATE in France, and by the POPE'S MANDATE at 656 Thus PAGE Thus was defeated a noble Effay, begun with It It is remarkable that the first Trials of the VITAL The Introduction of VITAL AIR into the In the Operation of TRANSFUSION care muft 656 ib. ib. |