INDEX 



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Serum, antivenomous, prevoutive power tested by intravenous injection, 246. 



,, ,, rules respecting proportions of quantity to be administered, 266, 



267, 268. 

 ,, ,, specificity of, 248. 



,, Calmette's, in treatment of cobra-bites, 363, 364, 365. 

 ,, therapeutics, antivenomous, 241-252. 



technique of, 262-265. 

 ,, See also Snake serum. 

 Serums, specific against coagulant venoms, 192. 

 Sewall on vaccination of pigeons against rattle-snake venom, 241. 

 Silurida, 307, 308. 

 Silurus glanis, 308. 

 Sistruriis, 110, 120. 



,, catenatus (prairie rattle-snake, or massasauga), 120. 

 ,, miliarius (ground rattle-snake), 120. 

 ., ravus, 120. 

 Skin, marks produced on, by bites of different species of snakes (venomous and non- 

 venomous), 10. 

 Smell, loss of, following bite of viper, 178. 

 Smith, MacGarvie, researches of, 149. 



,, ,, on chemical constituents of venom, 160. 



, , , , and jMartin , C . J. , on local and general effects of albumoses derived from 



snake-venoms, 103. 

 Snake-bite, death from, rapid putrefaction following, 211, 212. 



,, hypo-leucocytosis accompanying, in lethal cases, 211, 212. 



„ mortahty from, 2, 3, 38, 57, 100, 261, 363. 



„ non-lethal, suppuration following, 212. 



,, poisonous, treatment in domestic animals, 265. 



,, ,, ,, men and animals, 259. 



,, ,, „ See also Serum therapeutics, antivenomous. 



Snake-charmers, 228. 



deaths from bites, 234. 

 Egyptian, 228-229. 



,, employment of Naja liaje for performances, 61. 

 Indian, 229-234. 

 Libyan, 228. 

 Roman, 228. 

 safety in skill, 234. 

 Snake-serum combined with snake-venom does not destroy red corpuscles, 220. 



,, dissolution of red corpuscles by, 219. 



Snake-venom, action on heart, 184. 

 ,, kidney, 183. 



liver, 182. 

 ,, lungs, 184. 



,, nervous centres, 185, 



,, spleen, 183. 



,, striated muscles, 184. 



activity greatest after prolonged fasting and after moult, 170. 

 aids digestion of prey, 213, 214. 



