The doctor tells the young man to take off his clothes and get into the bath. He tells him to swish the body with arsenic and to "swish the vitality" with "arsenal" . The doctor then tells the boy to get in the bath with the last ten needles. The boy says that it feels good, and the doctor tells him that it's just like "muffling" him. The young man says that he's afraid of snakes, but the doctor says that they'll plug the snake venom in and then he'll be fine.