On the Immediate Treatment of Persons Bitten by Venomous Snakes

brought under any medical treatment. The practice is a good one, and I would advocate its continuance and extension. Ammonia is a powerful stimulant and may do good?it cannot do any harm ; administered in doses of ten or fifteen drops with half a wine glass (chittack) of water, every quarter of an hour, or even more frequently, it may be of benefit; and, as in tho police stations and elsewhere in England, tables giving general instructions for the treatment of the drowned or suffocated, are hung up by the Humane Society, so in the Indian police stations, and other public places where such might be useful, I would hang up tables giving brief and clear instructions how to act in the case of snake-bite.