Under this impression
they drew the sword and rushed on as though in lawful war, and divided the
spoils of victory in the scale of justice.
After leaving St. Thomas's, a severe tertian ague every now and then kept
putting the traveller in mind that his shattered frame, "starting and
shivering in the inconstant blast, meagre and pale, the ghost of what it
was," wanted repairs. Three years elapsed after arriving in England before
the ague took its final leave of him.
During that time, several experiments were made with the wourali poison. In
London an ass was inoculated with it and died in twelve minutes. The poison
was inserted into the leg of another, round which a bandage had been
previously tied a little above the place where the wourali was introduced.
He walked about as usual and ate his food as though all were right. After
an hour had elapsed the bandage was untied, and ten minutes after death
overtook him.
A she-ass received the wourali poison in the shoulder, and died apparently
in ten minutes. An incision was then made in its windpipe and through it
the lungs were regularly inflated for two hours with a pair of bellows.
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