540 
Snake venom, how it is sucked up, 
30 
how 
= le 
its nature andeffects, 
to collect it, 
342 
Snake-killing Tom cat, 31 
Snakes and people, 473 
and lizards, 13 
and their mates, 266 
can they fascinate 
prey, 256 
changing their skin, 16 
eating eggs, 32 
hatching, 463 
how to capture them, 268— 
269 
their 
how to collect and preserve | 
them, 270 
how to feed them, 271 
how to pickle them, 276 
how to stuff them, 276 
in captivity, 282 
in houses, 34 
not tenacious of life, 47 
sucking eggs, 33 
swallowing their prey, 39 
their uses, 25 
Solenoglypha, 213 
Solid toothed snakes, 80 
Special first aid instrument, 401 
Spirits of ancestors in snakes, 
279 
Spuug slang, 170 
Stockholm tar cure, 328 
Strychnine cure, 332 
Surroundings of snakes, 43 
Symptoms of cobra venom poison- 
ing, 367 
Symptoms of viper venom poison- 
ing, 369-370 
Systematic list of S. African snakes, 
439-460 
if 
Tanjore pills, quinine, etc., cure, 333 
Tarbophis, 119 
Teeth of snakes, 22, 344 
Thelotornis, 126 
Three-cornered snakes, 96 
Tongues of snakes, 14, 361 
Treatment of snake bite, 400 
secondary, 426 
INDEX. 
| Trimerorhinus, 121 
Tropidonotus, 82 
Typhlops snakes, 51 
heads and tails, 54 
list of species, 52 
skulls, 51 
VW 
| Vagina dentis, 346 
Venom, Colubrine, 366 
different kinds, 366 
effects on non-venomous 
snakes, 380 
effects on other snakes, 377 
how it gets in and out of 
the blood, 307 
how it is absorbed, 388 
how it is discharged, 348 
how it poisons the nerve 
cells, 288 
how to destroy it, 305 
is digested, 364 
its constituents, 355 
Viperine, 368 
Venomous snakes and their poisons, 
342% 
distribution 
I61 
of, 
synopsis of genera, 
162 
Venoms differ in their pathological 
action, 392 
Vinegar cure, 333 
Viperide, 213 
Vipers, synopsis of genera, 214 
their distribution, 214 
Viviparous snakes, 19 
W. 
What to do if bitten, 400 
Whip snake, 124 
Why people recover when bitten by 
snakes, 394 
Williams, the snake catcher, 252 
with bag of snakes, 255 
Williams with captive snakes, 253 
LZ. 
Zibiba cure, 315 
Zwart Ringhals, 185 
slang, 98 
