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the pathological changes set up in the human system by the injection 

 of snake-poison is a sound one and that the treatment he has 

 suggested and used is correct and proper, and the one likely to avert 

 death in cases of snakebite, which would otherwise in all probability 

 prove fatal. We therefore press the use of hypodermic injections 

 of strychnia in the manner described by him upon the attention of 

 practitioners who may have to treat cases in which the symptoms 

 present are the result of snake or dangerous insect poison, and 

 think that, should the patients die without its having been used, all 

 will not have been done to save life that might have been." With- 

 out such utterances repeated from time to time and without the 

 ample space always allowed in the Gazette to the subject, a record 

 like that now submitted would not have been possible. 



Case 6. — P. Evans, a girl of 20 years, bitten on wrist by a 

 brown snake. Symptoms — Staggering gait, drowsiaoss, &c. Only 

 i'jth grain in four injections. Notes furnished by Drs. Mahoney and 

 Kennedy, of Albury. 



Case 7. — W. Thiplin, a labourer, bitten on hand by brown snake. 

 Three injections. Notes by Dr. Baird of Healesville. 



Case 8. — Luke Dewhurst, labourer, bitten on hand by tiger 

 snake. Cured by one injection of m. xv. liq. strychnia after 

 ammonia had failed. Notes by Dr. Dutton, of Lillydale. 



Case 9. — P. Moroney, labourer, bitten on thigh at night, snake 

 not identified. Cured by three injections of i^th grain each. Notes 

 by Dr. Pardey, of Myrtleford. 



Case 10. — Mrs. Skinner, bitten on thigh, at Carrum. Treated 

 by Dr. Verity. 



Case 11 — Child of Mr. Weeks, aged three years. Treated by 

 Dr. Degner, of Myrtleford. 



Case 12. — Annie Rankin, servant, at Corowa. Treated by 

 local chemist. 



Case 1 3.— Child of Mr. F. Daniels, of Mount Kent, Queens- 

 land, only two years old, bitten by a death adder on fourth finger of 

 left hand, the snake found clinging to finger. Ligature applied and 



