INDEX 
Blood, toxicity of, in reptiles, 217. 
confers partial immunity to venom, 218, 219. 
an 5 a destroyed by heating, 218. 
35 in venomous snakes, 217. 
Blood- -corpuscles, red, agglutination by venoms, 202. 
29 LE] 2 
serum or lecithin, 197. 
dissolved by snake-serums, 219, 220. 
>; ,, effects of venom upon, 196. 
resistance to ae doses of venom, 199, 200, 201. 
explanation, 200, 201. 
LE] 29 39 25 
375 
dissolution only effected by combination of venom with blood- 
3. », Washing of fronts before presentation to action of venom, 
196, 197. 
5 white, effects of venom on, 203. 
Bombay, laboratory for production of antivenomous serum at, 248, 252. 
Bonaparte, Lucien, chemistry of venom of vipers, 160. 
Bothrops, bites from, 353, 354. 
Bottard on venomous fishes, 288. 
Boulengerina, 58. 
Gé stormsi, 58. 
Brachyaspis, 95. 
curta, 95. 
Brain, comparative action of venoms of Colubridæ and Viperid@ on, 185, 186. 
», substance of, fixation of venom on, 186. 
Brazil, Thalassophryne maculosa found on shores of, 303. 
Brehm, on Crotalus confluentus, 125. 
5 the daboia (Vipera russellii), 46. 
“3 Echis carinatus (efa, viper of the pyramids), 76, 77. 
Se reverence paid by Hindus to Naja, 38. 
Broad-headed snake, 94. See also Hoplocephalus variegatus. 
Briot, A., experiments with weever-venom, 298, 299. 
5 poison of Scolopendra prepared by, 280. 
Bromized water, saturated, modifies or destroys venoms, 164. 
Brown snake, 87. See also Diemenia textilis. 
Brunton, Sir Lauder, on harmless ingestion of venom exceeding lethal dose, 214. 
Bufo calamita (uatter-jack), 318. 
musicus (musical toad), 318. 
viridis (green toad), 318. 
,, vulgaris (common toad), 318. 
Bufotalin, 319, 320. 
“a first active principle of toad-venom, and cardiac poison, 319, 320. 
Bufotenin, 320. à 
3 second active principle of toad-venom, and neurotoxic poison, 320. 
Bungarus, 30. 
venom of, active hæmolysing power possessed by, 199. 
ceruleus (common krait), bite, cure of, 337. 
LE] 
LE 
LE] 
9 39 LE] LE] 
candidus, 32. 
venom of, dose lethal for different animals, 174. 
unaltered under action of simultaneous doses of venom and serum, 220. 
