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strychnine. So, ordering strong coffee, I hurried to attend an 

 accident case just admitted with severe haemorrhage, and left the 

 boy in charge of a nurse, with orders to call me at once if she saw 

 any change. I had scarcely been away 15 minutes when the father 

 rushed in saying his boy was dead, and indeed his statement seemed 

 but too true. The child was lying quite limp, face blue, eyes half 

 shut, extremities very cold, no pulse perceptible, no respiration 

 visible. I at once injected m. x. of liq. strychnise P.B. and made 

 artificial respiration. He soon began to improve, and in about 20 

 minutes was able to speak. He was watched all night, but suffered 

 no relapse, and was discharged on the next day. 



Cases 19 to 21, reported by Dr. Weekes, of Lithgow, N.S W. 

 Dr. Weekes writes : — "Within the last year I have had three cases 

 under my care, all bitten by black snakes, and all in about the same 

 place, on the outside of the calf of the leg. The patients were all 

 comatose, exhibiting all the usual symptoms of snakebite-poisoning, 

 and in one, my last case, the patient had convulsions. In all of them 

 I made hypodermic injections of m. xv. liq. strych., and the effects 

 were most marked, the patients being completely roused and becom- 

 ing quite sensible and rational each time," ifcc. 



Case 22. — Mrs. Ryan, of Oberon, N.S.W., bitten on leg by 

 tiger snake, comatose and nearly pulseless after three hours, treated 

 by Dr. Kiugsburry, amount of strychnine not stated. 



Case 23. — Benjamin Childs, bitten on finger by death adder, 

 treated by Dr. Campbell, of Grafton, N.S.W. 



Case 24. — Rather remarkable. Reported by Dr. Lloyd Parry, 

 of Emmaville, N.S.W., in Gazette of March, 1891, and further 

 particulars in private correspondence with writer. A Chinese miner, 

 aged 30 years, was bitten on the back of the foot by a death adder. 

 His mates, deeming medical aid useless, did not send for Dr. Parry 

 until death was imminent, and then only with a view of getting a 

 certificate of death, and avoiding autopsy and inquest. When seen, 

 three hours after infliction of bite, the man was deeply comatose and 

 pulseless, skin icy cold, pupils dilated and insensible to light, lower 



