354 VENOMS 
XXXVI.—Case reported by Dr. Gries, Fort-de-France, Mar- 
tinique. 
“ About 7 a.m., on November 25, 1896, G., aged 23, a fusilier 
belonging to the disciplinary battalion, was bitten by a Bothrops 
at Fort Desaix under the following circumstances. One of his 
comrades had just caught the snake, and was holding its head 
down on the ground by means of a forked stick applied to the 
neck. G. passed a running noose round the reptile’s neck, but, 
his comrade having withdrawn the fork too soon, the snake 
had time to dart at him and bite him in left thumb. At the 
moment when he was bitten the man was squatting, but he 
quickly stood up, carrying with him the snake, which remained for 
a few seconds suspended from the thumb by its fangs, and did 
not let go until its victim had struck it on the head with his fist. 
G. immediately ran to one of his officers, who applied a tight 
ligature to the base of his thumb, and sent him off to the hospital, 
where he arrived on foot and quite out of breath, ten or twelve 
minutes after the accident. He was at once given a hypodermic 
injection of 10 c.c. of antivenomous serum in the left flank ; the 
thumb was washed with a 1 in 60 solution of hypochlorite of 
calcium, after which the hgature was removed. A few moments 
later, thinking the case a serious one, I caused a second injection 
of 10 c.c. of serum to be given in the right flank. 
“Tmmediately after being bitten the patient experienced com- 
plete loss of sensation in the limb, as far as the middle of the 
arm. About 9 a.m. he complained of acute shooting pains in the 
hand. At 11 o’clock the limb was still benumbed, but by degrees 
sensation returned. Profuse sweating. 
“On November 26 sensation was restored in the whole limb; 
no inflammatory phenomena. The patient was perfectly well. 
“The Bothrops on being brought to the hospital measured 
1 metre 47 cm. in length.” 
XXXVII.—Case reported by Dr. Lavigne, Colonial-Surgeon 
at Fort-de-France. 
