Case of Echis Toxæmia
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Sir,?I liave lately received from Mr. Baini Parshad, B.Sc., Zoological Laboratory, Lahore, a snake for identification, with the report that a native had succumbed to the effects of its bite. The specimen proved to be an Echis carinata, one foot two inches in length. A native about 38 years of age was bitten on the 18th June in the jungle, just above the ankleA companion captured and killed the snake. Mr. Baini Parshad saw the man about 7 hours after the bite, and was informed that he had already had haemorrhages from the nose and mouth. The man was unconscious, and cyanosed. Refusing hospital treatment, his relatives submitted him to the operations of a native medicine man, and he died 12 hours after the casualty. The brevity of the interval between the bite and the death is remarkable, and makes the case worth placing on record.
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