400 VENOMS 



Spiders. See Araneida. 



Spitting snake, 63. See also Sepedon hccmachates . 



Spleen, action of venom on, 183. 



Sponge-divers, malady of, 272. 



Squamijyinnes, 304. 



Stings (wasp- or bee-), treatment for, 286. 



Stomach, acute inflammation of gastric mucous membrane produced by ingestion of 



venoms of Viperid<s, 180. 

 Strong ylocentrotiis lividus, poison from pedicellarise of, 273. 

 Strychnine, injection of, of no value as antidote against snake-venom, 261. 

 Sunda Islands, poisonous snakes of, 81. 



Superstitions, native methods of inoculation full of, 239-240. 

 Suppuration following non-lethal snake-bites, 212. 

 Surucucu or bushmaster, 112. See also Lachesis imitus. 

 Sutherland, Surgeon-Captain, bite from Ecliis carinatus, 348. 

 Sydney, laboratory for production of antivenomous serum at, 248, 252. 

 Sijnanceia, 288, 289, 290. 



,, poison-apparatus of, 291. 



,, brachio, 291. 



Syncope, following inoculation of venom of Sijnanceia brachio, 292. 



Teleostei, 290, 305, 307. 

 Temperature, effect of, on venoms, 101. 

 Tetrodon, 290, 305. 



,, rubripes, 306. 

 ,, stellatus, .306. 

 Tcuthidida, 301. 

 Teuthis, 301. 



Texas rattle-snake, 124. See also Crotalus scutulatus. 

 Thalassin, poison from Anemone scultata, 270. 

 Thalassophis, 133. 

 Thalassophrijne, 288, 303. 



,, maciolosa, 303. 



reticulata, .302-303. 

 Thuau on bites from European vipers, 342. 

 Tidswell, F., on venom of Ornitliorliynchtis, 324. 

 Tiger-snake, 95. See also Notechis scutatus. 

 Toad, common, 318. 



,, green, 318. 



,, musical, 318. 



,, and frog, distinctions between, 818. 



,, ,, salamander, much dreaded by ancients, 312. 



,, venom of, 318, 319. 



jj ,, active principles of, 319, 320. 



„ ,, , closely analogous to that of salamander, 321. 



,, ,, preparation, 319. 



,, ,, exaggerated by the ancients, 312. 



Trachinidce, 297. 

 Trachinus (weever), 288, 289, 297. 



