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finger chopped off, but condition of child very precarious when 

 admitted to Toowoomba Hospital, after a night's journey, at day- 

 light, in complete collapse. Pronounced out of danger by Dr. 

 Hunt, the house-surgeon, at 10.30 and taken home in the afternoon. 

 Notes not furnished. 



Case 14.— Reported by Dr. Pain, of Allora, Queensland. 

 Symptoms serious Four injections of m. xv., x., viii. and vii. 



Case 15. — Reported by Dr. Garde, of Maryborough, Queens- 

 land, girl of 13 years, bitten by brown snake, requiring only two 

 injections of m. xv. and x. 



Case 16. — Reported by Dr. St. George Queely, of May town, 

 Queensland, lad of 19 years, bitten by black snake, symptoms 

 serious. Four injections of ra. xv., xv., xx., and xv., total 65 

 minims of liq. strych. P.B. injected within less than two hours, 

 muscular spasms appearing after last injection. Patient made rapid 

 recovery, riding home, a distance of 16 miles, within a few hours 

 after treatment. 



Case 17. — Reported by Dr. Ray, of Seymour, severe bite of a 

 tiger snake. Within six hours 5th of a grain administered sub- 

 cutaneously, besides a considerable quantity given by the mouth. 

 Patient made a good recovery. " Every injection after the second 

 one,'' Dr. Ray reports, " having a distinct efiiect within three or 

 four minutes, and lasting from one to one and a half hours before 

 tendency to coma returned." 



Case 18. — Very remarkable. Read by Dr. Forbes, medical 

 officer of hospital, Charters Towers, Queensland, before the North 

 Queensland Medical Society. Boy, 6 years old, was admitted to 

 hospital at 9 p.m. on 27th October, 1890, bitten on foot by a death 

 adder, which was killed and identified. Dr. Forbes reports : When 

 seen by me, two hours after the accident, he was sitting on his 

 mother's knee with his head hanging on one side, but quite con- 

 scious, and answering questions rationally, pupils widely dilated 

 with almost no reaction to light, pulse very fast and soft, &c. 

 Thinking his condition might be due to fear I hesitated to use 



