_N. B._ In all that were suffocated by Oil, we found their Lungs fill’d with a very thick Froth[56]. Footnote 56: Mr. _Benj. Motte_’s Philosophical Transact. abridg. Vol. 1. Part. ii. p. 220, 221, where you may find many Instances of the same Nature. * * * * * The Remarkables here are, I. _That a small Portion of this venemous Liquid should in so short a time do such terrible Executions_: That it should so soon infect so great a Quantity of Fluid, as the whole Mass of Blood in the wounded Animal. A very learned Physician accounts for it thus, _viz._ “That in the Drop of Poison are pungent Salts, by which little Bladders in the Blood are prickt, and the elastick Matter in them being let out, carries those acute Salts thro’ the whole Region of Fluids; upon which follows a Coagulation[57].” Footnote 57: Dr. _Mead_’s Mechanical Account. All venemous Creatures hurt, by instilling a liquid Poison into the Wound, suppose the Wound to be given by the Tooth or Tail. The aforesaid ingenious Physician says, _viz._ “This venemous Juice it self is of so _inconsiderable a Quantity, that it is no more than one good Drop that does the Execution_.”——In order, adds he, to examine the Texture of the Liquor, I enrag’d a Serpent till it bit upon something solid, so as to void its Poison; whose Parts I view’d with a Microscope as nicely as I could. “Upon the first Sight, I could discover nothing but a Parcel of small Saks nimbly floating in the Liquor, which soon shot out, as it were, into _Crystals_ of incredible Tenuity and Sharpness, with something like Knots here and there, from which they seemed to proceed; so that the whole Texture in a manner represented a Spider’s Web, tho’ infinitely finer, and more minute; and yet withal so rigid were these pellucid _Spicula_ or Darts, that they remain’d unalter’d upon my Glass for several Months[58]”. ——_N. B._ These saline Particles appeared to be Acids. Footnote 58: _Ibid._ p. 5-6. Most surprising this! to see an Army of Flesh and Blood, tremble and fall before a single Atom of Matter! to see the _Cedars of Lebanon_ demolish’d by the single Stroke of a contemptible Worm. So in the Moral World. Even in the Paradisaical State, how malignant the Poison of forbidden Fruit that spread Mortality over the whole human Race, and will affect Millions; dreadful Effects of once eating forbidden Fruit! What a World of Evils flows from one Disease or Disorder in the human Nature! _It was by one false Step the unquenchable Fire was first kindled._ II. _That Poison is not so dangerous, if it does not mix with the Blood._ Even that venemous Liquid may be tasted, yea, and swallow’d without mortal Effects, say some of the Learned. Hence it is, wounded Persons have been directed to get the Venom immediately suck’d out, which has been practis’d without ill Consequences to the Sucker.