A Case of Snake-Bite Treated by Hypodermic Injection of Sulphate of Strychnia: Recovery
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a Hindu male of good physique, a convalescent prisoner in the jail hospital at Monghyr, was lying asleep in the ground near his bed. It was a hot night with but little breeze, and he had left his bed to sleep opposite the window, the gratings of which reach the level of the floor. While dozing he felt a snake crawl over him, and reached his hand down to draw his blanket close to him. As lie did so the snake seized him by the ulnar edge of the hand and held on to him so firmly that he had to tear it off him before he could fling it away. The snake unfortunately escaped; but the man says it was about as long
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