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INDEX 



Abdominal Cavity, injection into, of 

 Gobra -poison, effects of, 43 



— Yeiu (Frog), injection into, of Cobra- 



p.iisoi), effects of, 75 



Absorption, Mode of Kction of Snake- 

 poison, 18, 105, 106, 160 



Extreme rapidity of, 19 



— ■ of I'oison in jieueral, 105 



Means of arresting, 106 



Albuminoid body, chief constituent of 

 Cobra-poison, 9 



Alcoholic extracts of 



Cobra-poison, action of, 9, 14, 37, 



67-8, 91 



— — Eattlesiiake-poison, action of, 10 



— Precipitates of 



Cobra-poison, action of, 9, 16 



CroZ^a/i(.s-poison, action of, 10 



American Eattlesnake-poison, experiments 

 with, 114 et seq. 



Ammonia, useless as Antidote to Snake- 

 poison, 37, 38, 39, 109-10, 

 Fontana on, 4, 8 



Amoeboid movements of Blood Corpuscles, 

 effect on, of Cobra-poison, 

 127, 133 



Analysis of Cobra-poison by Armstrong, 

 9 



Animals and Birds experimented on with 

 Snake-poison, and Briinton's 

 Permanganate Lancet, 153, 

 157-60, Tables I., II., III., 

 154, 156, 159 



Animals, Poisoned, eifect on, of Inspiration 

 of Pure Oxygen, 111. 129- 

 30 



Antidotes to Snake-poisons {see eapecially 

 Permanganate of Potash), 

 cause "of apparent success 

 of, 7-8 



— — Chemical, limitation of, 137, 142 



Essentials in, 6 ^" note, 19 



Inefficiency of, 3, 4, 8, 17, 110 



Physiological, 137 



Anti-vivisection Act, effect of, on efforts 



to provide Antidotes for 

 Snake-bites, 161 

 Aortal injection of Cobra-poison, 75-6 



(95) 



Areolar Tissue, effect on, of 



Cobra-poison, 43, 123-G 



Crotalus-Yiomon, 123-6 



Z'a6i;ta-poison, 24 



Injection into, of Liquor ammonise, 



for Snake- bite, 109 

 Armstrong, Dr., on Chemical Characters 



of Cobra-poison, 8, 9 & note 

 Artificial Respiration in Cobra-poisoning, 



83, 84, 85, 87 

 — — - — effect on Cardiac action, 96 et 



seq. 



effect on Convulsions, 90, 91 



Life prolonsing action, 5, 17, 



20-2, 107-8 

 with Pure Oxygen, unsuccessful, 



129-30 

 in Curara-poisoning, Life-saving 



action of, 45 



in Poison cases (general), 17 



Asphyxia, tlie usual cause of death from 



Cobra-poison, :;0 c|' note, 55, 



89 

 Ataxy from Croi^aZjw-poison, 112 

 Auricles, as affected by Independent 



Pulsations of Pulmonary 



Veins and Vena Cava, 135, 



136 



Beenaed, Claude, on Rapid Absorption 



of Poison by Blood, 19 

 Bernard's method ol Ligaturing, 59 

 Bichat, on commencing point of Somatic 



Death, 20 

 Birds, see tinder Names 

 Black Snake virus, action of, 112 

 Blake, on Rapidity of Absorption of Poison 



by Blood, 19 

 Blood, action on, of Cobra-poison, 23, 25, 



43, 44, 90 



— as affected by Crotalus-^oi^oxnvLg 

 {a) before Death, 113 



(h) after Death, 113 



— as affected by Z)aJom-poisoning, 18 



note, 25, 44, 84, 113 ^ note, 

 4' -ee Cases 



— Cliangesof Colour in, in Dwiom-poison- 



iug, 26, 27, 28 



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