INDEX. 



539 



Fascination, how it is done, 257 



wrong conclusions, 258 

 Feeding animals on venom, 362 



snakes on live animals, 280 

 Fibrin ferments, 356 

 File snakes, 96 

 FitzSimons' first aid instrument, 401 



snake bite outfit, 395 

 Food converted into blood, 292 



of snakes, 38 

 Formalin for pickling snakes, 274 

 Fowl flesh cure for snake bite, 328 

 Fresh water snakes, 42 

 Front fangcd snakes, 160 



G. 



Gall of snake cure, 333 

 Garter snake, 195 

 snakes, 169 

 Geel slang, 170 

 Geko lizard, 312 

 Glauconia snakes, 55 



skulls of, 56 



list of, 57 

 Grass snakes, 130 

 Green water snakes, 92 



H. 



Haemorrhage into tissues 



Habits of snakes, 45 



369 

 and mortification, 370 

 Haemorrhagins, 355 

 Hankered after his gall, 65 

 Harmless snakes, 81, 102 



key to the species, 82-90 



list of, 82 

 Health laws, 292 

 Herald or Red-lipped snake, 134 

 Heroism of birds, 258 

 Hibernation of snakes, 43 

 Hissing, how it is done, 20 

 History and distribution of snakes, 



12 

 Homalosoma, 90 

 Homorelaps, 168 

 Honey ratel, 324 

 Hope of recovery for apparently 



drowned, 430 

 Horned adder, 215 



figure of, 240 



habits of, 241 



head and neck of, 218 

 Horniball's Extract, 328 

 Horse-hair ropes, 265 

 House snake, adventure with, 93 



House snake, bitten by, 94 



swallowing rat, 93 

 House snakes, 92 



pictures of, 95 

 How to catch live snakes, 251 



collect venom, 371-373 



become immune, 392 

 Human heart, 296 



physiology, 283 



pipes that carry air, 298 



stomach, 295 

 Hydrophina;, 156 . 



key to the species, 158 

 Hydrus platurus, 158-159 

 Hypersensibiiity, 393 

 Hypnotism, 262 



Identification of snakes, 49 

 Immunizing animals to snake 



venom, 391 

 Intestines, 291 

 Ipecachuana cure, 331 

 Isibiba cure, 315 



K. 



Kafir superstitions, 277 

 Knots, how to tie them, 405 



L. 



Lady witli armful of snakes, 263 

 Lamprophis, 83 



Lancet and permanganate com- 

 bined, 401 

 Legless lizards, 53 

 Leptodira, 120 

 Ligaturing the arm, 403 



leg, 402 

 Liquor potassa^, 331 

 Living self-acting pump, 295 

 Lycophidium, 84 

 Lympathics, what they arc, 303 



that suck up venom, 

 306 

 Lymph, what it does, 303 



M. 



Macrelaps, 128 



Mamba, 194 



a kafir killed, 205 

 bit and killed a kafir, 208 

 distribution of, 212 

 do green ones turn black, 

 202 



