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this state, bordering between life and death, till about the sixth 
day, when a slow improvement began to manifest itself. From 
this time onward his condition rapidly improved, and in three 
weeks he was discharged from the hospital still in a weak, 
debilitated state, and although he gradually regained strength, he 
had relapses of slight bleeding from the mucous membranes of 
Fic. 61.—The Boomslang which bit Williams. It died about six months afterwards, and 1s 
now pickled in a tank of spirit. 
the mouth, and one eye was occasionally affected. Even three 
months after the accident, slight discolouration in the tissues 
surrounding one of his eyes showed itself for a few days. Apart 
from this, he has otherwise entirely recovered his health and 
strength, thanks to the skilful treatment in the first instance by 
Dr. Bruce, followed by the effective treatment whilst in hospital 
under the care of Drs. Pottinger and Wallace. 
ANOTHER INSTANCE. 
Some years ago a local gentleman was bitten by a Boomslang, 
and died a few days later, but the general belief was, and is, that 
he died of blood-poisoning consequent upon pricking and irritating 
the wound with some foreign substance. A well-known gentle- 
man, who saw him shortly after being bitten, says: ‘‘ I questioned 
him as to whether he had experienced any effects from the bite, 
and he certainly gave me to understand that he had not, and 
attributed the whole trouble to the rash use of a needle, and 
making too deep a puncture with it. He told me that he felt 
