Exotic snake bite: a challenge for the Scandinavian anesthesiologist?

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...

A Snake-Bite Poster

TuERii has long been needed a really authoritative and reliable snake-bite poster for use in hospitals, dispensaries, and public institutions in India. At the suggestion of Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., a large coloured snake-bite poster, 3| by 2-| feet in size, has now been prepared at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine; to be issued as a supplement on payment to subscribers to the Ind...

Snake bite.

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them clinically challenging and scientifically fascina...

Snake-Bite

A Case of Snake-Bite

The boy stated that at about 8 P.M. as he stepped out of his house, which is near a well, he felt that something had given him a sharp bite on the back of the right foot. On looking round he found that it was a snake and shouted to his sister who killed it. He did not trouble about *oing to hospital as the people living in the neighbourhood said it was a harmless snake. Soon after the bite he f...