The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 2: From Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800, Abridged, With Notes and Biographic Illustrations, From 1672 to 1683Whilst these experiments were making, it came into the heads of some to try another, upon the relation that Signor Paolo dell' Ara (lately come from Paris) had made, which was, that some asserted there, that, to swallow a viper' s heard was a most certain preservative and remedy against the biting of a 1iper.dr.francini smiled at that fancy, but to give full satisfaction, he made two experiments. The one was, by making the cock swallow a viper's head, and then causing him to be well bitten 111 both thighs by a live one. But the cock continuing some time before he gave any signs of sickness, not to lose time, he passed to the other experiment, by thrusting the teeth of a dead viper 5 head into another pigeon, that had before got down one of those heads into his belly. The conclusion was, that both died, the cock within a quarter of an hour, and the pigeon in less than'4 minutes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.