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Camp to treat a native who had been bitten by a berg-adder in the 
left leg, just below the knee. I immediately injected a dose of 
Calmette’s antivenomous serum in the left flank, and the wounds 
were washed. The injection was given two and a quarter hours 
after the accident. The patient was already very ill when I saw 
him, and I have no doubt that, without the antivenomous serum, 
he would have died. 
“On the following day he had recovered, and I saw him again 
three months later; since then he has not experienced any 
functional trouble.” 
F.—Hydrophiidæ (Sea-Snakes). 
XIX.—Case recorded by Mr. H. W. Peal, Indian Museum, 
Calcutta (Indian Medical Gazette, July, 1903, p. 276). 
“On April 1, 1903, at 7.30 p.m., a man was bitten at Dhamra, 
in Orissa, by a sea-snake which had been caught in a fishing net. 
He was not brought to me until 2.30 the next day, when he was 
in a state of collapse, semi-unconscious, and unable to speak, with 
eyes dull and almost closed. The bite was on the third finger of 
the left hand, just above the first joint. The finger was swollen, 
tense, and stiff. I gave the man an injection of 5 c.c. of antivenene 
ten minutes after he was brought to me. Three or four minutes 
after the injection the man with some assistance was able to sit 
up, and said he felt much better. He complained of great pain at 
the back of the neck and also in the lumbar region. He was able 
to speak fairly coherently after a little time. His eyes were brighter 
and he seemed to be aroused from his lethargy. 
“I had about one hundred living sea-snakes with me, belonging 
to the three genera Enhydrina, Hydrus, and Distira. He identified 
Enhydrina valakadien as being the snake which bit him; so did 
the men who were with him. The snake was said to be about 
34 to 4 feet long. 
“The antivenene did the man so much good, that he himself 
