Snake-Poisoning in Australia
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The case of the late Mrs. John Falconer should stimulate the promised medical inquiry as to the action of ammonia in snakebites. That lady was bitten, and died. In the early reports of her case it was merely mentioned that, the usuul remedies were resorted to, and no allusion whatever was made to the ammouia treatment, but the facts as stated aroused our suspicions. and we were induced to put the question point blank, and the Riverine Herald has since ascertained that atnmoma
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دوره 11 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016