On the Poison of Venomous Snakes and the Methods of Preventing Death from Their Bite
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experiments upon animals. The greater part of the book deals with the physiological action of venoms, proving the practically identical character of the poison of both colubrine and viperine snakes, though the local action of the latter is shown to be more pronounced. This corresponds with clinical experience, the bite of a viper causing intense pain, with extravasation and swelling, going on to sloughing when life is sufficiently prolonged ; whereas in many cases of cobra bite there is but little to see locally except the double puncture. The rapid putrefaction developing in
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