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Show roUon.proof Animals. Neither differences of organize-Lion organize-Lion in animals nor in the constitution constitu-tion of the inlsouous substance generally gen-erally afford any.clew for Interpreting Interpre-ting an exceptional want of eQcCt. Unaccountable is the Immunity of rebbits against belladonna leaves Atropa btttadonna, deadly night-shadv). night-shadv). You may feed them with belladonna for weeks without observing observ-ing the least toxic symptoms. The meat of such animals, however, proves poisonous to any one who eats It, producing the same symptoms symp-toms as the plant. Pigeons and various other herbiyora are also to some degree safe from theeflectaof this poison, while in warm-blooded camivora it causes paralysis and asphyxia. In frogs the effect is a dillerent one, consisting of spasms. Tlie meat of goats which had fed on liembck baa sometimes occasioned poisonous effects. Chickens are nearly bartly against uux vomica and the extremely dangerous alkaloid, alka-loid, strvchnlue, contained in it, while Iu the smallest amount It is a fatal poison to rodents. More remarkable re-markable yet in this respect is fh,e immunity of Utaloeptu Itojfmanni, a kind of slolli. living on the island of Ceylon, which, when given ten grains of strychnine, was not much ajfechij. f jgepp; are possessed of high luimunlsy from "niophnp. the chief alkaloid of opium, u well as from bellaJonnaj Eight grains weie required to kill a pigeon, not much less than (bo mortal dose for a nun. Cats are extremely koutltlre to fox, s;lovc liffUaUt,:purpurea)r''whkh on the contrary may be given to rabits and various birds In pretty lane doses. If. -Bernhardt, in The frpularSMt Monthly. |