272 Uvularia perfoliata as a remedy for Poisoned Wounds. 
gest the expediency of making trials of analogous plants so widely 
diffused among us, and so easy to obtain in larger quantities, as 
Veratrum viride, and Helonias lutea and dioica. ‘es 
Case.—Mount Carbon, July 22: 2, P.M. Called to visit s. 
B., five years old, said to have been bitten by a rattlesnake. Dr. 
Wetherill politely accompanied me. According to her father, she 
was walking with him three hours previously, picking whortle- 
berries, when the father trod on a snake, which immediately bit 
the child. On being questioned, the persons present acknowl- 
edged that the serpent in question was less than three feet long, 
that they had not heard it rattle, and that they had not killed it, 
and therefore had no opportunity of examining its ap 
As the-effects of the bite were violent, it was presumed that it 
was inflicted by a copper-head, iP aeonaneihalia contortrix, of 
Dr. Holbrook, ) which was.the only snake known in the vicinity 
likely to combine the above conditions. 
-A company who walked to the spot two days after, found the 
body of a copper-head in a state of decay, which might easily be 
attained in such an interval. It had. been, notwithstanding the 
above statements, killed by a blow across the back, and was fur- 
. nishing a repast to a number of large black: baesien, observed to 
gnaw the bodies of snakes. 
-A strip of white ash bark was Bound finaly" SBodd the limb 
above the knee; and at some subsequent: period, a quantity of 
Uvularia pestelata: bruised with vinegar and salt, was applied 
_ round the vicinity of the bite. - Under this treatment the wound, 
cat first intensely’ painful, became ie free from ‘pain unless 
touched. It continued to feel numb. 
The limb was enormously distended with an cedematous swell 
ling, extending as’ high as the ligature; masses of effused blood 
were visible, deeply seated in the top of the foot and in several 
parts of the leg, particularly at the middle of the fore part. The 
skin was white, shining, and cold. One puncture only was visi- 
ble, situated about two inches above the instep, and surrounded 
by a dark red circle. I could only explain the appearance of a sin- 
gle puncture by supposing, that the snake struck the child while 
isordered in its movements by the pressure of the parent’s foot. 
A cup was sent for, but when obtained proved too large to ad- 
here to the limb. Suction was made forcibly by the bowl of a 
enero tie for half an hour ; at the end of which time, several 
