A Case of Snake-Bite

One evening, after sunset, in the autumn of 1897 at Mian Mir, a sepoy of the 32nd Pioneers, walking through some grass near the regimental hospital, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left foot and cried out that he bad been bitten by a snake; another sepoy, who was with him, with great presence of mind, immediately tied a piece of puggari round the left calf and took him to hospital, I arrived at the hospital about twenty minutes after the man had been bitten; the snake had not been seen and 1 was rather sceptical, but examination revealed two small punctures about half an inch apart on the left side of the dorsum of the left foot; the man was in a nervous, excited, and restless condition, and talked in a whisper, but constitutional symptoms were very slight, the pulse was a trifle hurried, and the respiratory rate was hardly more than normal; the ligature had been effectually applied by the sepoy and circulation was arrested ; there were said to have been some spasmodic twitchings of the left leg when he was first taken in, but there