Legro's Solution and Snake Bites
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Silt,?I beg to send you notes on the use of Michel Lcgro's Anti-Venomous Solution in cases of snake-bite, which may be kindly inserted in the Indian Medical Gazette. Recently I was called to see a case of snake-bite. A boy, aged about 18, was bitten on his right foot by a cobra at about 7 a.m. The patient immediately after the bite tied a ligature tightly round the leg below the knee with a rope which he carried with him for his cattle, and cried aloud for help. His neighbours hurried up to the place and killed the serpent which lay hidden in an adjacent bush. The serpent was -!? feet long and its diameter at the middle was 5J inches ; many native ojhas assembled and tried their mantras. At about 8-30 A.M. symptoms of poisoning developed, notwithstanding the three additional ligatures tied by the men subsequently. I reached the place at 9 A.M. when the condition of the patient was
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