As the _Viperine Venom_ is the _Quintessence_ and most active Part of those _Animal Juices_ with which the Viper is nourished, so is also _That_ of the Scorpion; for this Insect lives chiefly upon _Locusts_, _&c._ and the same Person from _Barbary_ inform’d Me, That seeing oftentimes _Locusts_ sticking up in the Ground as if they were _Set_ there, by looking he found that some Part of them was always eat away, and that these Places were the _Holes_ of Scorpions, who had dragg’d their Prey thither, and fed on it as they had Occasion. In like manner, as the _Axungia Viperina_ cures the Bite of the Viper, _so_ also the _Oleum Scorpionum_, or Oil in which Scorpions have been infused, is a present Remedy for the Sting of this Creature. * * * * * The Mechanism of the Sting of a _Bee_, D^r. _Hooke_ has very accurately described (46). One may with the naked Eye sometimes see it discharge the _Venom_; and in _this_, by the help of a _Glass_, I can easily discover a great Number of Minute _Salts_ Floating. And indeed this _Apparatus_ or Contrivance is so universal, that we find even in _Vegetables_ something Analogous hereunto; for the last mention’d Author (47), has shewn Us, That the pricking Points of _Nettles_ do at the same time they pierce the Skin, instil a Venomous _Juice_ into the Wound. FOOTNOTES to Essay I. (1) _Lib. 2. Cap. 74._ (2) _De Animalib. lib. 17. c. 5._ (3) _Bœotic._ p. m. 303. (4) _Not. in Alpin. de Plant. Ægypt._ Cap. 14. (5) _Purchase_’s Pilgrimage, _l. 5. c. 12._ (6) Act. Apost. _Chap. 28._ (7) _Leg. Cornel. Cels. præfat. in Medicin Morbos ait vetustissimis temporib. ad Iram Deorum immortalium relatos esse, & ab iisdem opem posci solitam._ (8) _Divinæ Potentiæ Symbolum. Vid. Ezec. Spanhem. De Vsu Numismat. p. m. 125, 126, & 181, & seq;_ (9) _Saturnal. Lib. 1. c. 20. Ideo Simulachris Eorum (Æsculapii & Salutis) junguntur figuræ Draconum quia præstant ut humana Corpora velut infirmitatis pelle depositâ, ad pristinum revirescant vigorem, ut virescunt Dracones per annos singulos pelle senectutis exutâ._ (10) _Osservazioni intorno alle Vipere._ (11) _Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere._ (12) Philosophical Transactions, _Vol. XII. No. 144._ (13) _Vid. Fig. 19._ (14) _Dissertatio de Opera quam præstant Corpora Acida vel Alcalica in Curatione Morborum._ (15) _Vid. Bernoulli de Effervescentia & Fermentatione._ (16) _Vid. Redi Lettera sopra alcune oppositioni_, &c. (17) _Lib. 3. Cap. 2._ (18) _Medicin._ Lib. 5. c. 27. (19) _Lucan. Pharsal._ 1. 9. (20) _Loc. ante citat._ (21) _Vipera Pythia_, p. 361. (22) _De Theriac. ad Pison._ lib. 1. c. 8. _Vid. etiam_ c. 10. (23) _Nat. Hist._ lib. 11. c. 53. _Scythæ Sagittas tingunt Viperinâ Sanie & humano Sanguine; irremediabile id Scelus._ (24) _De Mirabilibus._ (25) _Bontii Histor. Ind._ lib. 5. c. 5. (26) Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy, _Part 2. p. 50._ (27) p. m. 66. (28) _Esperienze intorno a diverse Cose Naturali._