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of the kind that he knew so well, to kneel down, pass his left 

 arm into the hole, and seize the snake, was the work of a moment ; 

 he quickly succeeded, even better than he intended, for instead of 

 his seizing a grass snake, the viper bit him so hard in the left 

 forefinger, that he could only make it let go by pulling it off with 

 his other hand. Well knowing that he had been dangerously 

 bitten, he went down to the Station Road to get the wound dressed, 

 after which, thinking that all necessary precautions had been taken 

 he returned to the forest, but soon felt uncomfortable. His arm 

 and then his body swelled up, and he was seized with vomiting. 

 It was time to go to Fontainebleau to seek medical assistance, for 

 he had acute pain in the abdomen and stomach, his tongue was 

 swollen, and his body was turning black. 



"Accompanied by his friend he reached the town. His condi- 

 tion becoming more serious every moment; the injured man was 

 carried into a hotel, where Dr. Lapeyre administered injections of 

 antivenomous serum. After three hours — the same period as had 

 elapsed between the accident and the first treatment — the general 

 condition of the patient, which had never ceased to be alarming, 

 showed marked improvement. By the end of the day he appeared 

 to be out of danger, and left for Paris on Tuesday evening, delighted 

 at having got off so cheaply." 



H.— Echis carinata. 



XXVn. — Case recorded by Lieutenant C. C, Murisou, I. M.S. 

 {Indian Medical Gazette, May, 1902, p. 171). 



" G. W. R., a Mahomedan, aged about VI, was admitted into 

 hospital on March 10, 1902, at 9.30 p.m., having been bitten by 

 a snake on the dorsum of the right foot an hour and a half 

 previously. The snake was killed by his sister, and was subse- 

 quently identified at the Research Laboratory, Bombay, as an 

 Echis carinata (Phoorsa). 



" I saw the patient at about 9.45. The dorsum of the foot was 



