Dr. Fayrer's Treatment of Snake-Bite by Artificial Respiration

In the November (1872) number of the Indian Medical Gazette I published my first series of experiments oil artificial respirution in snake-poisoning, and the results I considered unfavourable. Judging, however, from the experiments I have since made, I am led to believe that the unsatisfactory results were due more particularly to faulty artificial respiration. It will be observed by the following experiments, that in one caso the heart's action was maintained for 10 hours, and then coased only on the discontinuance of the artificial respiration ; and in another, the heart was kept beating for 21 hours and 35 minutes, sensibility being restored after it had been completely lost. The results, as shown by these experiments, are therefore