Snake-Bite, Cured by Stimulants

which she received the bite. The burning pain which resulted from the bite compelled her to return home, where she was treated without effect for more than two hours by the native quacks with all sorts of charms (munturs) ; but, as the symptoms of poisoning gradually became worse, her friends thought it expedient to have recourse to the English treatment, and accordingly brought her at 12 noon to tl\e Charitable Dispensary under juy care. On admission, she was found partially insensible, with pupils moderately affected by light, conjunctive yellowish," and pulse soft and small. The punctured wound on the fiuger was crusted over with a coagulum of blood, and surrounded with a little swelling. The treatment consisted in the administration of a mixture composed of ammonia carb. gr. v., spt. vin. rect. 31, mist, camp. ?i, every ten minutes ; the inhalation of ammonia ; and the continual pouring of cold water over the head. In the course of an hour she became conscious, and her pulse seemed improved. She was then ordered to be continually shaken and loudly spoken to, in order to remove the lethargic state from which she was still suffering, and at the end of a couple of hours from her admission she was perfectly cured.