Case of Bite of Cobra: Recovery
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In July 1864, when at Googaira, I occupied a house about 40 yards from the Post Office, where the bullock train carts used to change bullocks. One evening, while sitting out of doors after dark, I heard the cart arrive, and the sound of the pole of the cart striking the ground, and almost at the same time a man cried out that he was bitten by a snake. I, and the friend I lived with, ran over to the man, who was hammering away at the dead snake with his goad. "We tied three bandages tight round the bitten leg, one just above the bite, which was on the outer ankle, at the apex of the triangular space where the fibula is subcutaneous, another just below the knee, and a third above the knee. They were made of the man's turban, and were twisted by means of sticks very tight. He was then carried over to the bungalow.' A lancet was used to scarify the bites, and a small apparatus, which was in readiness, applied to the wounds, by means of which much blood, and presumably much of the poison, waa removed. This apparatus consisted of some ten inches
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دوره 8 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016