CONCLUSION. 



In the little work submitted herewith to the 

 medical profession and the general public, for both of 

 whom it is intended, the author may justly claim to 

 have solved the difficult and long-standing problem of 

 snake-poison. We have at last a correct theory of its 

 action, and, what is of more importance to the public, 

 we have an effective antidote. These facts, being as fully 

 established in these pages as any scientific facts can 

 be, the most exacting and even captious criticism 

 will not upset, nor can further research add anything 

 very material to the writer's deductions and their final 

 result. 



In order to show how an obscure Australian 

 country practitioner succeeded in a discovery, for 

 which all his predecessors in this field of research had 

 laboured in vain, it will be necessary in conclusion to 

 give a short history of the discovery as by slow 

 degrees it has originated and matured in the writer's 

 mind, who during the last 35 years with respect to 

 this subject had followed the advice which Schiller 

 gives in his grand poem, " Die Glocke :" — 



Wer etwas Treffliches leisten will, 

 Hatt' gern was Grossesgeboren, 

 Der sammle still und unerschlafft 

 Im kleinsten Punkte die grosste Kraf^, 



