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INDEX. 



Tetanic arrest of Cardiac action induced 

 bj Cobra-, Daboia-, and 

 ffi/draphis--poison, 95, 104, 

 112 



Thanatophidia of India, The, by Sir J. 

 Fayrer, 1, 17, 31, 39, 40, 42, 

 106, 109, 110 note 



Thoracic cavity. Injection into, of Cobra- 

 poison, effect of, 41, 50 



Tiger-snake of Australia {Hoplocephalus 

 curins), Virus of, action of, 

 112 



Tissues {see also Areolar Tissue), effect on, 

 of Cobra-poisoning, 10 



Tourniquet, improvised, in Snake-bite, 

 153 



Transfusion of Blood, possible means of 

 preventing Death through 

 Snake-bite, 109 



Tree-snakes {Dendrophis picta), effect on, 

 of Cobra-bite, 32 



Trimeresuri, Low fatality from Bites of, 3 



Unconscioitsness after Cobra-poisoning, 

 24 



Yagus(i), division of, effect of 



on Gruinea-pigs, 89 



on Rabbit, 93 



— Inhibitory branches of, action on, of 



Cobra- and Curare -poison- 

 ing, 97 



— Peripheral ends of, effect on, of Cobra- 



poison, 69 



Vallisneria, effect on, of Cobra-poison, 

 132-3 



Valvular disease of the Heart, value in, of 

 Independent Pulsation of 

 Pulmonary Veins and Vena 

 Cava, 136 



Vegetable Protoplasm, action on, of Snake- 

 (Cobra-) poison, Darwin on, 

 127-8 



Vena Cava, Pulmonary Veins and, Inde- 

 pendent Pulsation of, 134, 

 importance of, 136 



Venomous Snakes, Bites of {see also Snake- 

 bite), effect of, on them- 

 selves, 31, 33-5, 105 



Means of Preventing Death from, 



105 



Easy, of the same, 149 et seq. 



Indian, Poison of. Nature, etc., of, 



1,23 



Relative Destructiveness of, 3 



Venoms, see Snake-poisons 



Ventricles, Pulsation of, and of Pulmon- 

 ary Veins while Auricles 

 motionless, 135 



Viperidse, African, virulence of, 23 



— Indian, 23 



Viperine poison, local action of, 48 

 ■ Neutralised by Permanganate of 



Potash, 152, 153, 158, 160, 



Tables I., II., III., 154, 156, 



159 



Physiological effects of, 112, 113, 114 



Viperine Snakes {see also Crotalus, Dahoia, 



etc.), Blood-changes due to 



Bite of, 18 Sf note 

 Viscera, after Croi^afes-poisoning, 113 et 



seq. 

 Voisin, Observations of, on Curare - 



poisoning, 56 

 Vomiting, after Cobra-poisoning 



of Cats, 84, 89, 139 



of Dogs, 10, 11, 24, 70, 89 



of auinea-pigs, 10, 24, 38, 89 



— after C rotalus-^o\%onva.g, 112 

 by Cat, 121 



by Frog, 129 Sf note 



Wabm-bloodbd Animals, see under 



Names 

 Warmth, applications of, in cases of 



Curara-poisoning, 4 

 Woorara, see Strychnia and Woorara 



Xenurelaps bungaroides, 23 

 Zinc, see Chloride of Zinc 



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