PERMANGANATE OF POTASSIUM IN SNAKE-BITE.

Potassium Permanganate Crystals in Snake-Bite

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In the issue of the Gazette for April 1926, on p, 178, is reported a case of recovery from cobra poisoning in which potassium permanganate crystals were used locally in the incisions made at the bitten parts with resultant sloughing, and it is in this connection that I write to enquire whether the rubbing in of these crystals is of any real value ...

Treatment of Snake-Bite with Potassium Permanganate

animals with a view to determining the efficacy of this agent, administered in this fashion, and fixing a dose." Later in the same paper the author recommends " the intravenous injection of 350 c.c. of a 5 per cent, solution of permanganate of potash " in cases of snake-poisoning in human beings. It is against this procedure that I wish to warn the medical profession, and the urgency of the mat...

Permanganate and Snake-Bite

A Case of Snake-Bite: Hypodermic Injection of Permanganate of Potash

On the 30th December 1881, Sib Churn Lalla, a sweet-meat vendor employed at the Goalundo Kailway Station, was seen lying on the ground outside the bungalow of one of the residents with a crowd of people around him. He was carried to my house in a semi-insensible state. He was unable to walk or stand. After considerable hesitation he protruded his tongue, but was apparently unable to speak disti...

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...