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trace either of permanent nerve injury or of blood 

 poisoning. 



The same also occurs in the human subject. I am 

 indebted to Dr. Richards for the following account of 

 % most interesting case which came under his own 

 observation : — 



A man named Bamon Das, aged forty years, was 

 bitten by a snake ou the shoulder about 3 o'clock in 

 the morning. From his description it was probably the 

 snake termed by the natives of Bengal the " Teutuliah 

 Karis"(a spectacled cobra) about four feet long. He 

 had complained, after the bite, of feeling intoxicated, 

 had vomited, and could neither stand nor speak, though 

 he had continued to be perfectly conscious. At 10 a.m., 

 when Dr. Eichards saw him, he was being supported 

 in the sitting posture by two men. Near the posterior 

 border of the deltoid of the left arm were two rather 

 indistinct fang-marks at some considerable distance 

 from each other; one fang-mark, however, more re- 

 sembled a scratch than a puncture. The arm was 

 painful, hot, and swollen, measuring eleven inches in 

 circumference, whereas the other arm at a similar part 

 measured only nine and a lialf. On cutting through 

 the punctures the track of the fang was clearly visible, 

 though the staining of the areolar tissue was very 

 slight indeed. He had no power whatever over the 

 eye lids, which had dropped, leaving only the lower parts 

 of the pupils visible. The pupils were perfectly natural, 



