Microscopical Examination of the Blood. 21 



I now extract from Sir Joseph Fayrer's valuable 

 work some facts which bear upon the fluidity of the 

 blood during life, and the tissues by which the blood 

 escaped : 



BY THE URINE. 



FROM OTHER KEGIONS. 



COMMENT. 



It was having read of similar cases in the Indian 

 journals, long before the publication of Sir J. Fayrer's 

 work, that made me so anxious when I saw the 

 gentleman who had been bitten, an hour or two 

 previously, by a tiger snake, spitting blood into his 

 handkerchief, and from which bite he died. 



It will be seen that, out of the above eight cases, four 

 recovered. Can it be that in this way the poison had 



