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phia when persons become able to take large doses without
injurs'. It is the same with arsenic. A man may take large
doses of arsenic without being poisoned, and by careful work
one mav become immunized so that the rattlesnake will not 1
injure. I have seen a person hold up a cobra, hold out their
arm and let it strike it. without injur}-, and then let it strike ^
a rabbit and it would die in a few minutes. It is done by
injecting ver>- small quantities of the snake poison day after
day, increasing the poison gradually until they are able to
bear any ordinary- dose of it.
We will continue this subject in our next lecture.
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phia when persons become able to take large doses without
injurs'. It is the same with arsenic. A man may take large
doses of arsenic without being poisoned, and by careful work
one mav become immunized so that the rattlesnake will not 1
injure. I have seen a person hold up a cobra, hold out their
arm and let it strike it. without injur}-, and then let it strike ^
a rabbit and it would die in a few minutes. It is done by
injecting ver>- small quantities of the snake poison day after
day, increasing the poison gradually until they are able to
bear any ordinary- dose of it.
We will continue this subject in our next lecture.
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