Ophidians, zoological arrangement of the different genera, including varieties known in North and South America, the East Indies, South Africa, and AustraliaTheir poisons, and all that is known of their natureTheir galls, as antidotes to the snake-venom .. . s, and 44 min-utes, which shows that despite the compression of the arteriesand veins in the limb, a ligature cannot be put on so tightlybut that the poison Avill pass with great rapidity into the gen-eral circulation, and produce death. Carbolic acid Avas given to a Cobra; it recovered in one case,but in all the remaining cases death ensu
Ophidians, zoological arrangement of the different genera, including varieties known in North and South America, the East Indies, South Africa, and AustraliaTheir poisons, and all that is known of their natureTheir galls, as antidotes to the snake-venom .. . s, and 44 min-utes, which shows that despite the compression of the arteriesand veins in the limb, a ligature cannot be put on so tightlybut that the poison Avill pass with great rapidity into the gen-eral circulation, and produce death. Carbolic acid Avas given to a Cobra; it recovered in one case,but in all the remaining cases death ensued in 5 minutes, 20minutes, and 25 minutes. The bull and the goat bitten by Co-bras, which AA-ere treated by foAAds liver rubbed on the AAOundand Tanjore pills administered, both recoAcred, although afoAAd treated in the same AAay died in 6 hours 40 minutes. * See page 132. MICROSCOPICAL APPEARANCE OF COBRA-POISON. 177 In experiments made by Dr. Russell with the Daboia poisonit killed a dog in 26 minutes, and a chicken in 36 Cobra jwison injected into the jugular vein is not knownto have produced death in less than 34 seconds. Fig. 2 is from Fayrers Thanatophidia, and is a sfigmataken by Dr. D. Douglas Cunningham^ of Bengal. Under Fig. Appearance of the Cobra-poison under the microscope. what magnifying power this appearance is exhibited is notstated. The poison-globules have the general appearance of spotteddisks and dots, lines and curves; a most peculiar obtuse 178 OPHIDIANS. angle, formed by the junction of two straight lines, and othergroups of lines converging from common centres, suggest crys-tals, as shown in Fig. 13. Microscopical Sfigmas, showing the Appearance of thePoisons in the Blood of a Dog and of a Fowl. As taken by Dr. Douglas Cunningham, Bengal. Fig. Fig. 4.
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