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paralysis, chin hanging down to sternum, pupils dilated, &c. An 

 injection of m, xv. had no effect ; one of m. xx. very little. After 

 a third one of m. x. patient suddenly became conscious, could walk 

 without assistance, and in half an hour was sent to bed perfectly 

 recovered. 



Case 27. — Reported by Dr. Yeatman, of Auburn, South Aus- 

 tralia. Mr. D., a farmer, aged 45 years, bitten on thumb ; snake 

 not named; cured by three injections of only m. v. each. Convulsions 

 lasting for an hour came on three hours after treatment — a very rare 

 occurrence — by Dr. Yeatman erroneously ascribed to the strychnine, 

 which in so small a dose would not have produced them in the 

 absence of snake-poison. 



Case 28. — Reported by officer in charge of police at Grenfell. 

 Boy of 6 years, bitten by brown snake, and treated by Dr. Rygate. 



Case 29. — W. Toomer, aged 19, bitten by tiger snake on thumb 

 and index finger, and not treated until 9J hours after bite, having a 

 long distance to travel. Recovery very slow through timid use of 

 antidote, five injections of ^th grain having but little effect, until 

 one of loth restored him. Treated by Dr. Stokes, of Echuca. 



Case 30. — Reported by Dr. Bennett, surgeon, Gulgong Hospital, 

 N.S.W. Mrs. Mears admitted to hospital comatose and pulseless, 

 nothing having been done to check absorption. The intravenous 

 injection of ammonia failing to rouse her, m. xv. of liq. strych. were 

 injected, when pulse returned, but coma continued. After a second 

 injection of m. xv. she suddenly became quite conscious, and in an 

 hour was fully restored. 



Case 31. — Reported by Dr. Mead, of Quirindi, N.S.W. John 

 Simson, aged 15 years, bitten by a death adder on forefinger of right 

 hand. Dr. Mead living 50 miles away, and the lad collapsing, a 

 layman, Mr. Robert Simson, had to undertake treatment, and 

 injected during the night m. 150 of a one in 240 solution of strych- 

 nine, equal to §ths of a grain. Dr. Mead, finding the lad conscious 

 and only a little drowsy, did not inject any more strychnine until 



