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2 p.m., when a relapse took place. He then injected m. viii. of liq. 

 str. P B., and in half an hour ra. vii. more. The last injection 

 produced slight muscular twitchings, and subdued the snake-poison 

 effectually, the lad making a good recovery. The total quantity 

 used in 13 injections was over three-quarters of a grain within 18 

 hours. 



Case 32. — This case is another instance of the successful use of 

 the antidote by a layman, and can be verified by the writer, who 

 saw the patient, a girl of 14 years, after her father had carried out 

 the treatment successfully. The girl had been bitten by a large 

 brown snake whilst walking through a paddock, and very soon 

 afterwards lost the use of her legs, and for a time also her eyesight. 

 The symptoms being so very alarming, and the girl at a distance of 

 35 miles from the writer's residence, the father at once injected j^jth 

 of a grain of strychnine, and in a very short time another j'sth. The 

 child then rallied somewhat, and a start was made to bring her in, 

 the father taking the precaution of bringing the antidote-case with 

 him. This was fortunate, for the child collapsed several times, and 

 each time had to be roused by an injection before reaching the 

 writer. When finally she presented herself, walking into the writer's 

 surgery with a firm step, not a trace could be discovered either of 

 the strychnine, of which nearly half a grain had been injected, nor 

 of the snake-poison, also imparted no doubt in a fatal dose. The 

 two punctures on her leg, testifying to the size of the snake that 

 had bitten her, were the only tokens of the ordeal she had gone 

 through ; and the only task remaining for the writer was to con- 

 gratulate her father (Mr. James Trebilcock, a farmer, of Tawanga), 

 on the plucky manner in which he had carried out the treatment, 

 and see to the child being properly watched during the night in case 

 of a relapse taking place. None, however, occurred, and she left 

 next morning perfectly well. Cases of this kind, in which no doctor 

 is called in, are frequently reported to the writer, who finds that 

 laymen are even more successful because less timid than many 

 medical men, 



