538 
Mamba farmer’s extraordinary ex- 
perience, 209 
green variety, 199 
how a dog protected its 
owner, 207 
how he rushes, 211 
killed Mr. Claude Moller, 
210 
king of S. African snakes, 
207 
poison apparatus, 205 
sleeping, 206 
Mambas, black and green, 196 
howand why they change 
colour, 198 
their habits, 197 
crested, 203—204 
inflating body, 204 
Meercats and snakes, 30 
Methods of injecting serum, 408 
Microbe eaters, 301 
Microbes of disease, 293 
Migration of snakes, 43 
Mole snake, 98 
and its young, IOI 
and boy, 462 
young specimen, 475 
snakes and how to handle 
them, 275 
and snake venom, 381 
are harmless, 100 
as pets, 275 
constricting rats, 103 
heads of, 86 
Muishond or Stink Cat, 28 
Muishonds fighting snakes, 30 
N. 
Naia, 163 
Nature’s resistance, 369 
Nerve cells and snake venom, 288 
Nervous collapse, 394 
Neurotoxins, 355 
Night adder, 215 
bit and killed a man, 
236 
Night adder, habits of, 233 
head of, 216 
laying eggs, 235 
venom of, 234 
wonderful poison 
glands of, 237 
Night adders, 232 
are Oviparous, 239 
hatching, 19 
INDEX. 
O. 
Obsession, 278 
Olive-brown water snake, 91 
Opisthoglypha, 115 
Organs of the human body, 291 
Outfit for treating snake bite, 395 
Oviparous adder, 245 
snakes, 19 
Oxygen, what it does for the blood, 
299 
Be 
Paralysis of nerve 
centres, 429 
Paralyzed with fear, 260 
Parasites on snakes, 44 
Permanganate of potash treatment, 
respiratory 
382 
tested, 383 
Phagosytes devouring microbes, 
301 
Philothalmus, 87 
Poison apparatus, 343 
and how it works, 
505 
fangs, 25 
its elimination, 435 
of snakes, 359 
its effects on other 
snakes, 378 
Poisonous snakes, 342 
Poisons, how they are conveyed to 
the cells of the body, 302 
Port Elizabeth snake 
250 
Preserving snakes in spirit, 272 
Progression of snakes, 21 
Prosymna, 88 
Proteroglypha, 156, 213 
Psammophis, 122 ® 
Pseudaspis, 85 
Puff adder and batch of young ones, 
224, 471 
a modern Jonah, 227 
dissection of, 219 
eaten by red ants, 227 
catcher, 
extracting its venom, 
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head, and vagina dentis, 
340 
how it strikes, 228, 350 
of South Africa, 220 
adder’s fangs, 213, 221 
adder swallowing a rat, 36, 
226, 232, 357 
