Some Effects from Stinging by a Hornet (Vespa Orientalis)
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Sik,?I publish the following cases as I believe them to be quite unusual. Case /.?A sepoy of the 33rd Sikhs was stung in the axilla at about 8 p.m. on 1st September. In about one minute he fell down in a semi-conscious condition and was immediately carried to hospital on a charpoy. On arrival he was pale and somewhat cyanosed, was sweating, the pupils were contracted and the extremities were cold. The respiration was shallow and sighing and the pulse 130 or 140 irregular, and barely perceptible. He was treated with strychnine, hot water bottles, etc., and the pulse soon became regular and stronger, but he remained cyanosed and complained of a tightness in the throat for about 14 hours A slight oedema of the eyelid and face developed also. At 10-30 he had a short but severe rigor at the end of which his temperature was 101*4.
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