which she received the bite. The burning pain which resulted from the bite compelled her to return home, where she was treated without effect for more than two hours by the native quacks with all sorts of charms (munturs) ; but, as the symptoms of poisoning gradually became worse, her friends thought it expedient to have recourse to the English treatment, and accordingly brought her at 12 noon ...

One evening, after sunset, in the autumn of 1897 at Mian Mir, a sepoy of the 32nd Pioneers, walking through some grass near the regimental hospital, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left foot and cried out that he bad been bitten by a snake; another sepoy, who was with him, with great presence of mind, immediately tied a piece of puggari round the left calf and took him to hospital, I arrived ...

transfusions. The constant bleeding, together with the constant replenishment by saline solution, must have acted by washing the toxin out of the tissues, as it were. The bleeding stopped as soon as the venom was sufficiently diluted. Calcium was therefore contraindicated, contrary to your suggestion in the footnote. The idea strikes me that it stands to reason to try to treat both colubrine an...

As with most ailments not readily curable, empirical treatment and pseudo-specifics have been applied, to a very great extent, in the condition resulting from the bites of poisonous snakes. To enumerate all the substances which have from time to time been imposed on the credulity of mankind as remedies, would indeed be an endless task. The ancient physicians extolled preparations of the serpent...

Snake bite injuries and death are socio-medical problems of considerable magnitude. In India a large number of people suffer and die every year due to snake venom poisoning. Snake venom, though greatly feared, is a natural biological resource, containing several components that could be of potential therapeutic value. Use of snake venom in different pathophysiological conditions has been mentio...

Sir,?The following case is worthy of record Name.?Singaram, age 25, Dhoby. History.?On Friday (5th October, 1917) at 11 A.M., whilst working at a fence the patient felt a pricking sensation and saw some drops of blood on his forefinger. Almost immediately he recognised he had been bitten by a snake which was lying coiled with head up and hood expanded. With the assistance of his brother and fii...

Sir,?Referring to Dr. Banerjee's letter in the October 1926 issue of the Gazette, I would refer him to Wall's book on the Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of India and Ceylon, published by the Bombay Natural History Society, in which book the symptoms and treatment of snake poisoning are gone into very thoroughly. Dr. Banerjee's statement is quite correct that sloughing may be produced by the venom...