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Title: The Saturday magazine
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education
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Publisher: London : J. W. Parker
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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venom. He describes the part affected as be-coming much swollen, and extremely painful, im-mediately after the infliction of the injury; and, ac -cording to the constitution of the individual, this pain-ful feeling continued from twenty-four to forty-eighthours, or even as much as three days. But themost peculiar effect is a sudden and complete pros-tration of strength, to such an extent that thepatient becomes at once deprived of the power ofsupporting himself. This curious symptom inducedthe Doctor even to propose the use of the sting ofthe Scorpion in medicine, in cases where it becamenecessary suddenly to reduce the pulsations of theheart. Many a cruel experiment has been made, in orderto discover the truth of the story which says, that,the Scorpion if surrounded by fire, and withoutthe chance of escape, inflicts a wound upon itself,and thus perishes by its own poison. The truth is,the poor creature writhing under the tortures ofburning, may, during its sufferings, bring the point
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THE SCORPION 198 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. (May 25, of its tail, which naturally curves backward, incontact with some part of its body, but we may beperfectly sure that this is not done for the purposeof injuring itself. The end of the tail, which is bent like a hook, andextremely sharp at the point, contains the poison,and two small slits one on each side, near the point,allow it to escape into the wound inflicted by theanimal. The Scorpion is never foimd further norththan the south of France; but in Italy it is verycommon, and it abounds, and becomes more poison-ous, in the hotter countries of the east. The indi-vidual represented in the cut is a native of Ceylon. One day I got off my horse to kill a rat, which I found onthe road only half killed. I am shocked at the thoughtlesscruelty of many people: yet I did a thing soon after, thathas given me considerable uneasiness, and for which Ireproach myself bitterly. As I was riding homeward, Isaw a waggon standing at a door, with three hor

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