INDEX 395 



Queensland, mortality from snake-bite slight in, lUU. 



Rabbit, experiments on, demonstrating neutralisation of venom by antitoxin, 255. 

 ,, minimal doses of various venoms lethal for, 173, 174, 175. 

 ,, vaccination against cobra-venom, 243. 

 Rascasse, 296. 



Rat, P., on common vipers bite, 358. 

 ,, ingestion of venom of Pscudechis harmless to, 181. 

 ,, minimal doses of various venoms lethal for, 174. 

 Rat-serum, bacteriolytic action of venom not comparable to, 208. 

 Rattle-snaJje, common, 125. See also Crotalus durissus. 

 ,, dog-faced, 124. See also Crotalus terrificus. 



,, ground, 120. See also Sistrurus miliarius. 



,, horned, 129. See also Crotalus cerastes. 



„ Pacific, or mottled, 124. See also Crotalus confluentus. 



,, prairie, 120. See also Sistrurus catenatus. 



,, Texas, 124. See also Crotalus scutulatus. 



,, venom, vaccination of pigeons against, 241. 



Red Sea, Naseus found in, 301. 

 Reichert on chemical constituents of venom, 160. 

 Renaux, P., on bites from Crotalus horridus, 355. 

 Rennie, Major S. J., case of bite of Bungarus cccruleus, 337. 

 Reptiles, toxicity of blood in, 217. 



Respiratory centres, nerve-cell of, attacked by albumose of snake-venom, 162. 

 Rhinhoploceplialus, 95. 



,, bicolor, 95. 



Ehynchelaps, 97. 



,, australis, 98. 



,, bertholdi, 97. 



,, fasciolatus, 98. 



,, semifasciatus, 98. 



Richards on fatal results of experimental ingestion of venoms, 180. 

 Richet, C, congestin from Anemone scultata prepared by, 270. 

 ,, thalassin, from Anemone scultata prepared by, 269. 



Riughals slang, 63. See also Sepedon Juvmachates. 

 River-jack viper, 73. See also Bitis gahonica. 

 Rogers, Major L. , experiments on action of venom on nervous centres, 186. 



,, ,, researches of, on glands of snakes, 147. 



Romans, snake-charmers' customs among, 228. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Lucan on, 240. 



Roudot, Natalis, ou Hindu snake-charmers, 229. 

 Russell, on the venom of daboia (Vipcra russellii), 46. 



Sachs, on relation of toxins to antitoxins, 254. 



Salamandarin, 316. See also Salamaudrine. 



Salamander, Japanese, 317. See also Cryptobranchus japonicus. 



,, venom of, closely analogous to that of toad, 321. 



,, ,, potency exaggerated by the ancients, 312. 



Salamanders and toads most dreaded by ancients, 312. 



