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by Dr. Sartre, recovered; the other, who refused it, died within 
twenty-four hours.” 
IV.—Case reported by the Fathers of the Khurda-Mariapur 
Mission (India). 
“At 1 p.m., on October 31, 1905, a woman, aged 35, who had been 
bitten by a cobra, was brought to us from Khurda. After being 
at our dispensary for about an hour she became drowsy; she paid 
no attention to anything that was said to her, and merely replied 
that she felt sick. We thereupon injected 10 ¢.c. of serum. The 
woman did not even appear to feel the prick when the needle was 
driven into her calf. Immediately after this was done she dozed 
and went to sleep. The pulse was feeble, and the entire body cold. 
We were disposed to give a second injection, but, since we had 
only two bottles left, we hesitated to sacrifice one of them. At 
last, after sleeping for about half an hour, the woman awoke of her 
own accord, sat up, and began to recover her senses. Bodily heat 
returned almost immediately, and a few moments later the patient 
asked to be allowed to go home; she was, however, kept at the 
dispensary. In the evening she continued to complain of headache, 
but on the following day she was able to walk, and was quite well.” 
V.—Case reported by Dr. Brau (Saigon). 
“ Nhuong, an Annamese agriculturist, on passing through a piece 
of waste ground beside the barracks, at about 5.30 a.m. on Sunday, 
September 11, felt himself suddenly bitten behind the right knee. 
He caught a glimpse of a large blackish snake, with all the charac- 
teristics of a cobra, including the raised head and dilated hood, 
eliding hurriedly away, but was unable to overtake it. 
“The seat of the bite merely showed two small blackish 
punctures. The part soon became painfully swollen, and the patient 
began to feel giddy. Other natives came to his help; he was lifted 
into a Malabar cart and brought to the Military Hospital, whence 
he was sent to my house, where he arrived about a quarter past six. 
‘I entered the vehicle, and immediately drove with the patient 
to the Pasteur Institute. The only treatment that he had received 
