A Snake-Bite Poster

TuERii has long been needed a really authoritative and reliable snake-bite poster for use in hospitals, dispensaries, and public institutions in India. At the suggestion of Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., a large coloured snake-bite poster, 3| by 2-| feet in size, has now been prepared at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine; to be issued as a supplement on payment to subscribers to the Indian Medical Gazette. It is illustrated with 14 illustrations, mostly in colour; and every attempt has been made to reproduce the exact natural colouring of the species concerned. The letterpress of the poster deals, first with the distinction between colubrines and vipers; secondly, with the points of identification of the really important poisonous snakes of India, viz., the cobra, king cobra, banded krait, common krait, the coral snakes, Russell's viper, the Ecliis