14 HISTORICAL REVIEW. 



Bullet. — " Etude sur la Mosure de Vipere." 



British and American Workers are the most 

 numerous. Commencing with the century we have : — 



Russell. — "An Account "of Indian Serpents, 

 collected on the Coast of Coromandel." Later on, 



S. Weir Mitchell. — " Researches upon the 

 Venom of the Rattlesnake." 



Halford — "On Australian Snakes, and the Intra- 

 venous Injection of Ammonia, in British Medical 

 Journal, Medical Times, and Australian Medical 

 Journal." 



Jones. — " On Trigonocephalus Contortrix." 



Nicholson. — " On Indian Snakes." 



Sir Joseph Fayrer. — "The Tanatophidia of 

 India." Also, " Researches in conjunction with 

 Richards, Brunton and Eward." 



Wall — " On the Difference in the Physiological 

 Effects produced by the Poison of Indian Venomous 

 Snakes." Proc. Royal Soc, 1881, vol. xxxii., p. 333. 



Among those enumerated above Wall is the only 

 one who formulated a correct and thoroughly scientific 

 theory of the action of snake-poison, which has since 

 been confirmed by Australian research and by 

 Feoktistow's elaborate experiments. It is strange 

 that, after finding the theory that explained all the 

 phenomena, he did not follow it up by applying the 

 antidote to which his theory should have led him. 



