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pared with ordinary pricks or scratches, in many cases extending 

 to the shoulder, or even up the side of the neck; the temperature 

 varies greatly, in most cases going up two, three, or more degrees 

 within a very short time : lasting thus for a varying time, and 

 going down again as rapidly, often below the normal, when severe 

 collapse occurs, necessitating the free administration of stimulants 

 to counteract the heart-failure which threatens. 



Cases treated as in the ordinary methods for snakebite —chiefly 

 I have found permanganate the most efficacious - can be relieved 

 considerably if taken in hand soon after the sting: but if the poison 

 has had time to put in its fine work, so much the longer does the 

 recovery take. Extreme prostration, for several days, often 

 follows the stings, leaving the patient weak and exhausted. 



These symptoms are not compatible with non-toxic wounds. 

 They are undoubtedly venomous. 



LITERATURE. 



1. Tenison- Woods, Fish and Fisheries, N. S. Wales, IS82, p. 48. 



2. Ogilby, Ed. Fish. X. S. Wales, 1893, p. 68; and Proo. Roy. Soc. Qsld., 



xviii., 1903, p.2i. 



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