Cent. 6. Observ.Vir qui à Scorpione in manus digito punctus fuit, multum dolebat, & refrigeratus totus eontremebat, & per corpus dolores, cute totâ quasi acu punctâ, formicantes patiebatur, &c.
I cannot now stay to enquire, Whether there may not be in these great Refrigerations, made by so small a quantity of Poyson, some small Concretions or Coagulations made of the minute particles of the bloud into little clots, less agile and more unwieldy than they were when they moved separately: which may be illustrated by the little Curdlings that may be made of the parts of Milk by a very small proportion of Runnet or some acid liquor, and the little coagulations made of the Spirit of Wine by that of Urine: Nor will I now enquire, whether, besides the retardment of the motion of the bloud, some poysons and other analogous Agents may not give the motion of it a new modification, (as if some Corpuscles that usually aremore
