Treatment of Snake-Bite with Potassium Permanganate
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animals with a view to determining the efficacy of this agent, administered in this fashion, and fixing a dose." Later in the same paper the author recommends " the intravenous injection of 350 c.c. of a 5 per cent, solution of permanganate of potash " in cases of snake-poisoning in human beings. It is against this procedure that I wish to warn the medical profession, and the urgency of the matter must be the excuse for the publication of uncompleted experiments. In the course of carrying out certain experiments ordered by the Government of India, to test the value or otherwise of potassium permanganate as an antidote for snake venom, it was necessary to use the intravenous method of administration. As a preliminary a few control experiments were curried out to see if this salt was harmless when injected into the blood stream. As 350 c.c. of a 5 per cent, solution was recommended for ^he treatment of a human case, it was thought that about 50 c.c. of
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