INDEX. 



145 



Temporal muscles, action of, 10. 



Temporal muscles, anterior, compression of venom 



gland by, during the bite, 22. 

 Tenacity of life in Rattlesnakes (note), 24. 

 Thorax, post-mortem appearances of, 107. 

 Tissue of venom gland, 12. 

 To-ijicology of venom of Crotalus, 4T. 

 Treatment, local, division of, 109. 

 Trowbritlge (J.), case, 100. 

 Twitching of muscles about wound, not described 



in human cases, 104. 

 Tyson, mechanism of the bite, 20. 



V. 



Venom, action of, on animal life, 52. 



Venom, action of, on arterial pressure in animals 



bitten by Rattlesnakes, 8-3. 

 Venom, action of, on blood-globules, 91. 

 Venom, action of, on capillaries, 86. 

 Venom, action of, on cilia, 86. 

 Venom, action of, on calorifacient function, 88. 

 Venom, action of, on frogs, 54. 

 Venom, action of, on intestinal motions, 86. 

 Venom, action of, on man, 98. 

 Venom, action of, on nerve trunks, 86. 

 Venom, action of, on- plants, 4T. 

 Venom, albuminous nature of, 34. 

 Venom altered so as to l&se virulence, 49. 

 Venom, amount of, in the ducts, 27. 

 Venom apparatus, anatomy of, 6. 

 Venom, cliemistry of, 33. 

 Venom, comparison of, to saliva, 42. 

 Venom, comparative power of, to injure frogs and 



Rattlesnakes, 63. 

 Venom, decomposition of, 32. 

 Venom, direct action of, on blood, table of, 90. 

 Venom does not convert starch into sugar, 38. 

 Venom, effect of, on blood, 89. 

 Venom, effect of, on fibrin of blood, 92. 

 Venom, effect of, on heart of frog, 80. 

 Venom, effect of, on muscles, 78, 79. 

 Venom, effect of, on pigeons, 64. 

 Venom, effect of, on rabbit's heart, 81. 

 Venom gland, 10. 



Venom gland, anatomical relations of, 10. 

 Venom gland, are its tissue or infusions poisonous? 



39. 

 Venom gland, capsule of, 11. 



Venom gland, form of, 10. 



Venom gland, relations of, to fascia of external 



pterygoid muscle, 12. 

 Venom gland, size and weight of, 10. 

 Venom gland, structure of, 12. 

 Venom gland, suspensory ligament of, 11. 

 Venom, ingestion of, 76. 



Venom of Rattlesnake, effect of reagents on, 33. 

 Venom of Rattlesnake, proximate constituents of, 



37. 

 Venom of Rattlesnake soluble in water, 33. 

 Venom of viper, analysis of, 35. 

 Venom, physical characters of, 30. 

 Venom, physical and chemical characters of, 27. 

 Venom, power with which it is ejected, 24. 

 Venom, reaction of, 31. 

 Venom, receptacle of, within the gland, 12. 

 Venom, sediment from, 32. 

 Venom, sp. gr. of, 30. 

 Venom, taste of, 30. 



Venom uninjured by acids and alkalies, 46. 

 Vertebro-maudibular muscles, 9. 

 Vibriones in venom, 53. 

 Virulency of snakes after shedding the skin, 4. 



W. 



Water as local treatment, 112. 



Withmire (Dr.), case, 100. 



Woodhouse (Dr.), case, 100. 



Woodhouse (Dr.), swelling of lymphatic vessels 



and glands, 103. 

 Wound, bleeding from, 78. 

 Wound made by fang, 77. 

 Wound, situation of, in man, 101. 

 Wound, swelling about, cause of, 78. 

 Wound, twitching about, 79. 

 Wound, veins near, 78. 

 Wyman (Prof. J.) (note), 22. 

 Wyman (Prof. J.), on relation of duct to fang, 19. 



X. 



Xantus (J.), on Bibron's antidote, 113. 

 Xantus (J.) — see De Vesey's case, 100. 



Y. 



Yellow fever, likeness of, to venom malady, 97. 



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