Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity

c. HE acknowledges that an Animal bit in its Leg by a Viper,

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instantaneously feels acute pain[6]; and it, in like manner, feels instantly great uneasiness when the Poison is mixed with its Blood[7]. We know for certain, that, through the medium of the Nerves, we are instantly rendered sensible of injury done to the most distant parts of our Bodies.

ARE we not, therefore, in the last mentioned Experiment, to conclude, that the uneasiness was produced because the Poison acted upon the Nerves of the Vessels?