NEW TREATMENT FOR SNAKE-BITE AND OTHER POISONS

The Snake Poison and Various Other Poisons How Treated

The Treatment of Snake-Bite

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...

Viper Snake Bite: Treatment and Recovery

on the 2nd January, 1932, about three inches below the left knee on the outer aspect of the leg. History.?He was bitten while cutting grass and was brought to me at about 3-30 p.m. Condition on admission.?The patient was unconscious, pulse feeble, respirations hurried and 48 per minute, body and extremities fairly warm and perspiring freely. Pupils?dilated. Treatment adopted.?A ligature was imm...

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...

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...