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which proves how virulent must be the poison which can 

 bear such an amount of antidote. A coolie was brought to 

 my hospital on one occasion, from an estate about twelve 

 miles distant, and on the way had imbibed over a quart of 

 strongest rum in the space of about four hours. There was 

 nothing in his appearanee suggestive of anything but intoxi- 

 cation, and I determined to persist in the treatment already 

 begun, and with my own hand I administered a pound of 

 aromatic spirits of ammonia within the next twenty-four 

 hours. Having no more at hand, but thinking that suffi- 

 cient, I left him to his fate, and after some twelve hours 

 more he recovered. When he had been told of his danger, 

 and of our efforts to revive him, and especially of the 

 quantity of liquor he had imbibed, he rubbed his stomach, 

 and grinning from ear to ear, said : " AH right. Doctor 

 Sahib ; dat serpent make um feel good and thirsty. Tell 

 him come bite again ; I no stop um." 



