Summary of Experiments on the Influence of Snake Poison

On the Influence of Snake-Poison on the Blood

The Action of Reagents on Cobra-Poison

liable mode of treating cases of snake-bite. In investigations regarding the action of drugs of a complex nature, it frequently occurs that the physiological action of the drug, considered as a whole, differs from its isolated constituents. Thus, while opium is narcotic, thebaia, one of its constituents, is purely excitant, and in doses of one grain causes tetanic spasms (Farquharson). The expe...

Recent Researches into Snake-Poison

Snake-poison is a subject of perennial interest to all dwellers in India.For, notwithstanding the laborious researches of numerous distinguished observers, the problem of an antidote to snake-venom still remains unsolved, and poisonous snakes continue to wield their, terrible destructive power with fatal freedom. The physiological action of Indian snake-poison has been carefully studied by Fayr...

On Snake-Poison

nuated blood, with the altered character of its elements; the dilatation of the pupils; the foaming at the mouth; and the general lethargy, followed by convulsions and death. J This is not a poisonous snake. It is known also, in Bengal, as Betaehra. The term lineatus has been suggested by Dr. Sircar, because of the resemblance of the snake to the one described under that namely Russel at page 3...

Snake-Poisoning and Its Treatment

Sir,?Will you kindly permit me to offer a few remarks ori the two cases of snake-bite contained in your issue of the 1st instant, by Surgeon-General Cornish, C. I. E., and Dr. Bull respectively. As regards Dr. Cornish's remark that neither Fayrer nor Ewart in their works dwell on the value of suction in the treatment of snake-bite, I would point out that Dr. Cornish has evidently overlooked tha...