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increased slowly, but at 11 p.m. the Baboon was still playing 
languidly. 
The following morning she was lying down, with the eyes 
closed, and unable to rise or move to any extent, although quite 
conscious. 
At 3 p.m. the animal was very weak, and respiration was 
slow and stertorous. 
Death occurred at 3.20 p.m. (twenty-seven hours after the bite). 
Before death the skin showed a large livid area over the 
abdomen. 
In the post-mortem, the most striking points were— 
(1) Hemmorrhagic infiltration occurring subrutaneously in 
patches, quite remote from the bite. 
(2) Hemmorrhage into the cecum and colon. 
(3) Apparent degenerative changes in the liver (not yet 
studied histologically). 
(4) Excessive aneemic pallor of most parts. 
RESULTS OF OTHER EXPERIMENTS. 
In experiments on the effects of Snake Venom on domesti- 
cated animals, undertaken recently at the Veterinary Research 
Laboratory, Onderstepoort, Pretoria, I have subjected some 
twenty-five horses, mules, and sheep to the actual bite of Cobras 
(Naia flava and migricollis), Boomslangs, Ringhals, and Puff 
Adders. 
Amongst the animals bitten by each species of snake, there 
have been some showing an acute onset of symptoms, ending 
rapidly in death, some taking a more chronic course, but with 
a fatal termination, and others ending in recovery. 
In these cases, blood has been taken at intervals, and examined 
with the following results :— 
(1) No appreciable diminution has ever been seen in the 
number of red corpuscles, as determined by the 
heematocrite. 
(2) In no case has any hemoglobin coloration of the plasma 
or serum been observed ante-mortem. 
(3) In a few cases there has been a marked difference in the 
coagulability of the blood. 
Thus in cases of two sheep dying fairly quickly as a result 
