Myoglobinuria and Sea-snake-bite Poisoning

Death from a Snake Bite (Krait Poisoning)

potash permanganate. Antivenene was injected ana also injections of adrenalin and pituitrin were givenWhen the medical officer saw the boy 15 minutes after the bite the boy was fully conscious with staring eyesSoon after he had one vomit and gradually he bega*j to get drowsy. He could be roused and answere questions until 10-30 p.m. There was no paralysis 0 the legs and he could move his legs w...

On the Bite of the Sea-Snake

No snake can destroy a Tilakchundee Bysc, so we read in Sleeman. Are any Europeans, I would ask, equally safe against the bites of these venonnus reptiles as this out-of-the-way caste iu Oude ? Mason, in his Burraah, observes at page 311 : ? " Poisonous water-snakes abound in our estuaries and rivers as far as tide-water ascends. Their bite has proved fatal in every case that has come under my ...

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...

Myoglobinuria and renal failure in toluene poisoning.

Toluene (methylbenzene) is a colourless liquid used as a solvent in the manufacture of synthetic rubber paint and lacquer as well as trinitrotoluene (Fairhall, 1957). Chronic or acute exposure to high concentrations is known to be toxic and to cause renal and hepatocellular damage (O'Brien, Yeoman, and Hobby, 1971). This report deals with severe myoglobinuria and acute renal failure necessitati...

Snake-Bite