They prove that this Poison does not act on
the NERVES, but on the IRRITABLE PRIN-
CIPLE of the moving Fibres, through the
Medium of the Blood,

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-
lution of the LUNAR CAUSTIC,

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
Caufticity, as the CAUSTIC ALKALI has no
fuch Property,

PAGE

647

An Explanation of the different Modes of Action of the
LUNAR CAUSTIC and the CAUSTIC ALKALI,` -

648

The Compofition of the Snake-pill, faid to be a Specific
against the Bite of the COBRA CAPELLO,

ib.

{Of

Of CANINE MADNESS, and the Remedies ufu-
ally employed,

648

Why ANTISPASMODICS do not promife, and
{have
have not cured, this terrible Difeafe,

{

649

MERCURY is reported by SAUVAGE and others
to have feldom or never failed in HYDRO-

When the Patient will not fubmit to this
Operation what next should be pursued,

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
Transfufion of Blood the whole Machine
of the Animal is endowed with remarkable
Vivacity,

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-
bouring under an Inflammation of

the Bowels.

It was prohibited by the KING'S MANDATE

in France, and by the POPE'S MANDATE at
Rome,

656

Thus

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Thus was defeated a noble Effay, begun with
Prudence in ENGLAND, but imprudently
purfued in FRANCE and SWEDEN, which,
had the firft Trials on the human Species
been conducted with care and caution,
might in Time have produced moft USEFUL
and SURPRISING EFFECTS,

It

It is remarkable that the first Trials of the VITAL
AIR were made in Confumption in FRANCE.
gave temporary Benefit, and spread, as CHAPTAL fays,
Flowers over the Borders of the Tomb, but haftening on
the mournful Cataftrophe it was foon abandoned, and had
not Dr. BEDDOES and his Coadjutors, Dr. DARWIN,
Dr. EWART, Dr. THORNTON, &c. been conducted
by a rational Theory, which they have established by
practice, the AERIAL REMEDIES had probably met
with the fame Fate as TRANSFUSION,

The Introduction of VITAL AIR into the
Practice of Phyfic has thrown great Light
on the Operation of TRANSFUSION,

In the Operation of TRANSFUSION care muft
be taken not to throw in too great a Quan-

656

ib.

ib.