Poisonous Snakes and Calmette's Serum : A Successful Case

back. She mentioned that she was going to hold a wire post when the snake caught her round the left forearm and gave her a bite on the left hand. She felt the sensation of a needle pricking and that was all. No sooner had the animal inflicted its wound than it disappeared again. On examination.?There were two fang wounds on the left thenar eminence half an inch distance from each other. These punctures were oozing blood. On the outer side of the first left metacarpal there were six teeth marks of a snake ; these were oozing blood also ; the place of bite slightly swollen and inflammed,