Remarks on the Action of Snake Poison on the Blood

By G. C. Rot, M.D., F.R.O.S. (Lond.) In one of my experiments with snake posion, with a view to find out the antidotal power of some remedial agents, my inquiries were diverted into a different channel from the microscopic appearance which the effusion at the seat of puncture presented. I introduced some dry cobra poison into the thigh of a fowl through a small valvular puncture, and stitched it up to prevent it flowing out. After death I examined the local effect of the poison, and found the cellular tissue around the puncture extensively infiltrated with greenish-looking serum. A little of this was scraped and put under the microscope, and it was found to contain a few blood corpuscles and numerous small cellular bodies. Now, where did these come from ? Were they