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reason why a more energetic use of it should not 

 restore them in India. 



Considering the terrible mortality from snakebite 

 in India, Dr. Banerjee's merit in being the first to 

 introduce the strychnine treatment there is of a very 

 high order, and his grateful countrymen will ever 

 cherish his memory. When his Excellency the 

 Viceroy had been appealed to in vain by the writer, 

 and the adoption of his method in India urged 

 through two A.ustralian Governors, a native of India 

 has stepped forward and taken the first step towards 

 alleviating an evil that has hurried over two millions 

 of his countiymen in every century to an untimely 

 grave. 



The cases as reported by him to the Australasian 

 Medical Gazette are cited belgw. 



