Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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--H. E. REYNE. "] [Footnote 3: Hasselquist. ] As to the snake-stone itself, I submitted one, the application of whichI have been describing, to Mr. Faraday, who has communicated to me, asthe result of his analysis, his belief that it is "a piece of charredbone which has been filled with blood perhaps several times, and thencarefully charred again. Evidence of this is afforded, as well by theapertures of cells or tubes on its surface as by the fact that it yieldsand breaks, under pressure; and e...xhibits an organic structure within. When heated slightly, water rises from it, and also a little ammonia;and, if heated still more highly in the air, carbon burns away, and abulky white ash is left, retaining the shape and size of the stone. "This ash, as is evident from inspection, cannot have belonged toanyvegetable substance, for it is almost entirely composed of phosphate oflime. Mr. Faraday adds that "if the piece of matter has ever beenemployed as a spongy absorbent, it seems hardly fit for that purpose inits present state: but who can say to what treatment it has beensubjected since it was fit for use, or to what treatment the natives maysubmit it when expecting to have occasion to use it?" The probability is, that the animal charcoal, when instantaneouslyapplied, may be sufficiently porous and absorbent to extract the venomfrom the recent wound, together with a portion of the blood, before ithas had time to be carried into the system; and that the blood which Mr.
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--H. E. REYNE. "] [Footnote 3: Hasselquist. ] As to the snake-stone itself, I submitted one, the application of whichI have been describing, to Mr. Faraday, who has communicated to me, asthe result of his analysis, his belief that it is "a piece of charredbone which has been filled with blood perhaps several times, and thencarefully charred again. Evidence of this is afforded, as well by theapertures of cells or tubes on its surface as by the fact that it yieldsand breaks, under pressure; and e...xhibits an organic structure within. When heated slightly, water rises from it, and also a little ammonia;and, if heated still more highly in the air, carbon burns away, and abulky white ash is left, retaining the shape and size of the stone. "This ash, as is evident from inspection, cannot have belonged toanyvegetable substance, for it is almost entirely composed of phosphate oflime. Mr. Faraday adds that "if the piece of matter has ever beenemployed as a spongy absorbent, it seems hardly fit for that purpose inits present state: but who can say to what treatment it has beensubjected since it was fit for use, or to what treatment the natives maysubmit it when expecting to have occasion to use it?" The probability is, that the animal charcoal, when instantaneouslyapplied, may be sufficiently porous and absorbent to extract the venomfrom the recent wound, together with a portion of the blood, before ithas had time to be carried into the system; and that the blood which Mr.
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