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third injection of 15 m. was made. This was followed by slight 

 twitchings about the face and neck, after which improvement and 

 recovery were uninterrupted. 



Dr. Thwaites' second case is even more remarkable and telling. 

 When the girl, after a journey of 30 miles, was carried into his 

 surgery, she appeared to be dead, and a second medical man, who 

 happened to be present, declared her to be so, and all attempts to 

 revive her useless. 



Case 4. — A. D., aged 15 years, a school girl, bitten by a vigorous 

 tiger-snake on the outside of left leg, the snake also holding on for 

 some time. She at once tightened her garter above the knee and 

 ran home, a distance of three-quarters of a mile. The bitten skin 

 was at once excised, another firm ligature applied, whisky adminis- 

 tered, and a hurried start made for Dr. Thwaites', distant 30 miles, 

 where she arrived five hours after accident. The latter writes : — 

 " She was then pulseless at wrists, cold as a stone, and with pupils 

 insensible to light. I could not perceive any respiration, but felt 

 the heart yet faintly fluttering. She was to all appearances just on 

 the point of death. I injected at once 17 minims of liq. strychnise. 

 In about two minutes she sighed, and then began to Dreathe in a 

 jerky manner. In about ten minutes, on my pulling her hair, she 

 opened her eyes and looked around, but could not recognise any 

 one. Pupils now acted to stimulus of light. In a short time she 

 could speak when spoken to, but not see at any distance. Her 

 sight gradually returned completely ; she kept on improving, and in 

 four to five hours after the one injection she seemed quite well, but 

 rather weak. I gave small doses of stimulants till morning, 

 and did not let her go to sleep till next evening. She suffered no 

 relapse, and her recovery was complete." 



Case 5. — This remarkable case was not published in the medical 

 press, but in many of the papers of Queensland, where it created 

 much sensation. The writer is indebted for an account of it to Dr. 

 Thwaites, who vouches for its correctness. It appears that this 

 gentleman acquainted the well-known explorer of Northern Queens- 



