374 VENOMS 
Australia, health authorities’ notices against venomous reptiles, 100. 
mortality from snake-bite in, 100, 261. 
poisonous snakes of, 81-100. 
— snakes of, almost all confined to sub-family Elapine, 5. 
BACTERIOLYTIC action of venoms, 206. 
_ », how differing from that of rat-serum, 208. 
Bailey, action of venom on brain, 185. 
Batrachians, 312. 
Batrachiide, 302. 
Batrachus grunniens, 302. 
5 tau, 302. 
Bavay on the spitting snake, 63. 
Bee-sting, remedies for, 286. 
Bees, venom of, 282. 
Bertrand, researches of, 147. 
Bertrand and Phisalix, experiments on immunity of hedgehog to venom, 226. 
A He preparation of toad-venom, 319. 
Bettencourt, R., venom antitoxin treatment of yellow fever, 184. 
Bibron and Duméril on coloration of snakes, 16. 
a Naja worship in Egypt, 61. 
Bile, destructive effect on cobra-venom, 215. 
Birds, symptoms after inoculation with lethal doses of venom, 172. 
Bitis, 69. 
,,  arietans (puff adder), 69. 
A Pe eons bite from, 350. 
5 RATS venom used for poisoning arrows by Hottentots, 72. 
atropos, 72. 
caudalis, 73. 
,,  cornuta, 73. 
,,  gabonica, 73. 
: 4 does not attack man, 74. 
,, inornata, 72. 
peringueyt, 72. 
Black snake, 88. See also Pseudechis porphyriacus. 
Blin, bite from Cerastes, 349. 
Blindness following bite of viper, 178. 
Blood, anticoagulant action of venom on, mechanism of, 195. 
coagulability, action of venom of Lachesis lanceolatus on, 191. 
*, * destroyed by venoms of Colubride, 179, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193. 
ae 4 Ap ar certain species of Crotalinæ, 191, 192, 198. 
uncertain action of venom of Vipera berus on, in certain animals, 
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coagulation of, connected with action of venoms of Viperid@ on nervous system 
185, 186. 
produced by venoms of Viperidæ, 179, 188, 189. 
not coagulated after death caused by venoms of Colubride, 171, 188, 189. 
of hedgehog toxic before heating, antitoxic afterwards, 226. 
of scorpion antitoxic, 279. 
