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INDEX. 



Mead on reaction of viper venom, 31. 



Mead, taste of venom of viper, 30. 



Mind, state of, in venom poisoning in man, 105. 



Mitchill (S. L.) on analogy between yellow fever 

 and venom poisoning, 9T. 



Moore (Br.), case, 100. 



Motions of intestines nnaltered by venom poison- 

 ing, 86. 



Mucous membrane of moutli of Rattlesnake, reac- 

 tion of, 31. 



Muscles, effect of venom on, 78. 



Muscles, irritability of under venom poisoning, 10. 



Muscles, ultimate effect of venom on, 79. 



Myology of venom apparatus, 8. 



N. 



Nerves, duration of irritability in, during effect of 



venom on, 86. 

 Nerves, motor, action of venom on, 87. 

 Nerves, sensory, action of venom on, 87. 

 Nervous system, action of venom on, 8C. 

 Nitric acid, effect of, on venom, 33. 



O. 



Odor of Rattlesnakes, 5. 



Ogier (Dr.), use of ligature as local means, 110. 



Olive oil as an antidote, 113. 



Olive oil as local treatment, 112. 



Orfila, criticism on Fontana, 59. 



Owen (R.), description of fang, 15. 



Pain of bite, cause 4)f, 101. 



Paul (Prince, of Wurtemburg), on Bibron's .anti- 

 dote, 113, 114. 



Phillips (A. B.), case, 100. 



Pig bitten by Rattlesnake, death (note), 78. 



Pigeons, action of venom on, 04. 



Pigeons, acute poisoning of, 64. 



Pigeons, chronic poisoning of, 65. 



Pihorel (Dr.), case, 100. 



Plants, action of venom on, 50. 



Position of snake before striking, 20. 



Post (Dr.), case, 100. 



Pterygoideus e.xternus muscle, function of, during 

 the act of biting, 22. 



Rabbit acutely poisoned, 67. 

 Ranby, mechanism of the bite, 20. 



Rattlesnakes, genera and species of (Appendi.x A), 



119—126. 

 Reaction of venom, 31. 

 Receptacle of venom, 12. 

 Recoveries, mode of, in man, 106. 

 Redi, ingestion of venom, 76. 

 Redi, mechanism of the bite, 20. 

 Reynoso, criticism on Brainard's experiments. 111. 

 Rigor mortis after death by venom, 79. 

 Rotiferae in venom, 53. 

 Russell, color of venom of Cobra, 30. 

 Russell, experiments on power of Cobra to kill itself 



and other serpents. 

 Russell on Tanjore pill, 113. 



Salisbury (J. H.), action of venom on plants, 48.' 



Saliva and venom compared, 42. 



Scarifications as local treatment, 109. 



Secondary poisoning in frogs, 57. 



Sex of those bitten, 101. 



Smith, mechanism of the bite, 20. 



Solubility of venom, 33. 



Soubeiran, anterior tendinous insertion of ant. 



temporal muscle in vipers, 12. 

 Sonbeiran, mechanism of the bite, 20. 

 Specific gravity of venom, 30. 

 Spheno-palatine muscle, action of, 8. 

 Spheno-palatine muscle, function of, during the act 



of biting, 22. 

 Sphcno-pterygoid muscle, action of, 8. 

 Sphincter of duct of venom gland, 14. 

 Stimulants, use of, in venom poisoning, 114. 

 Striking, mode of, action of muscles in, 21. 

 Suction, use of, in treatment, 110. 

 Sulphate of magnesia, effect of, on venom, 34. 

 Sulphate of soda, effect of, on venom, 34. 

 Sulphocyanidc of potassium, absence of, in venom, 



34. 

 Sulphuric acid, effect of, on venom, 33. 

 Symptoms, con.stitutional, in man, 104. 

 Symptoms, local, in man, 101. 

 Symptoms of venom poisoning in rabbits, table of, 



T. 



Tanjore pill, composition of, 113. 



Tannic acid, effect of, on venom, 33. 



Taste of venom, 30. 



Temperatures, effect of various, on activity of 



venom, 43. 

 Temporal muscles, 9. 



