540 



INDEX. 



Mamba, farmer's extraordinary ex- 

 perience, 209 

 green variety, 199 

 how a dog protected its 



owner, 207 

 how he rushes, 211 

 killed Mr. Claude Moller, 



210 

 king of S. African snakes, 



207 

 poison apparatus, 205 

 , sleeping, 206 

 Mambas, black and green, 196 



how and why they change 



colour, 198 

 their habits, 197 

 crested, 203-204 

 inflating body, 204 

 Meercats and snakes, 30 

 Methods of injecting serum, 408 

 Microbe eaters, 301 

 Microbes of disease, 293 

 Migration of snakes, 43 

 Mole snake, 98 



and its young, loi 

 and boy, 464 

 young specimen, 477 

 snakes and how to handle 

 them, 275 

 and snake venom, 381 

 are harmless, 100 

 as pets, 275 

 constricting rats, 103 

 heads of, 86 

 Muishond or Stink Cat, 28 

 Muishonds fighting snakes, 30 



N. 



Naia, 163 



Nature's resistance, 369 



Nerve cells and snake venom, 288 



Nervous collapse, 394 



Neurotoxins, 355 



Night adder, 215 



bit and killed a man, 

 236 

 Night adder, habits of, 233 

 head of, 216 

 laying eggs, 235 

 venom of, 234 

 wonderful poison 

 glands of, 237 

 Night adders, 232 



are oviparous, 239 

 hatching, 19 



O. 



Obsession, 278 

 Olive-brown water snake, 91 

 Opisthoglypha, 115 

 Organs of the human body, 291 

 Outfit for treating snake bite, 395 

 Oviparous adder, 245 

 snakes, 19 

 Oxygen, what it does for the blood. 

 299 



P. 



Paralysis of respiratory nerve 



centres, 431 

 Paralysed with fear, 260 

 Parasites on snakes, 44 

 Permanganate of potash treatment, 

 382 

 tested, 383 

 Phagosytes devouring microbes, 



301 

 Philothalmus, 87 

 Poison apparatus, 343 



and how it works, 



353 

 fangs, 25 



its elimination, 437 

 of snakes, 359 



its effects on other 

 snakes, 378 

 Poisonous snakes, 342 

 Poisons, how they are conveyed to 



the cells of the body, 302 

 Port Elizabeth snake catcher, 



250 

 Preserving snakes in spirit, 272 

 Progression of snakes, 21 

 Prosymna, 88 

 Proteroglypha, 156, 213 

 Psammophis, 122 

 Pseudaspis, 85 



Puff adder and batch of young ones, 

 224, 471 

 a modern Jonah, 227 

 dissection of, 219 

 eaten by red ants, 227 

 extracting its venom, 



373-375 

 head, and vagina dentis, 



346 

 how it strikes, 228, 350 

 of South Africa, 220 

 adder's fangs, 213, 221 

 adder swallowing a rat, 36, 

 226, 232, 357 



