Case of Cobra Bite
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inclined to believe, notwithstanding the wound, the bleeding and the intense swelling, that the bite was an imperfect one, and that any other treatment, and indeed no treatment, would have been equally successful. The case, however, is extremely interesting, more particularly on account of its demonstrating how " infallible remedies" gain a reputation entirely undeserved. I may state that I have noticed throughout my experiments, that much bleeding is a favourable circumstance, probably owing to the consequent dilution and expulsion of some of the poison. On the 7th of June, at about noon, I was informed by one of my servants that there was a large cobra curled up on the kutcha wall inside his house. I went, accompanied by my snake-man, to the servant's house, and saw lodged on the wall, between it and tke tkatcking, a cobra. All that was visible
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