A Case of Cobra Bite Successfully Treated with Fitz-Simson's Polyvalent Anti-Venomous Serum
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the interval she was being' administered nostrums by a Madari who had caught the cobra (shown in the photograph). They had applied two ligatures one above the wrist and the other below the elbow joint. She was brought to hospital in a state of collapse and complete unconsciousness. The pulse at the wrists was quite imperceptible, temperature 95.5 ?F., perspiration pouring out, corneal reflex absent, extremities cold and clammy, the face cyanosed and breathing was hurried and stertorous.
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