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eleven inches and a half; has passed a large quantity 

 of urine. 



Feels a little sick, and the veins about the face are 

 still rather gorged. Now speaks distinctly, and can 

 fallow. Suffering rather severely from the pain in 

 the arm. 



From this time the arm got gradually better, and 

 the man completely recovered. 



In tills case we have an example of severe cobra- 

 poisoning, well described, in which the nerve symptoms 

 were fully developed, and yet, when they had passed 

 away, the man was at once in a state of thorough and 

 complete recovery. 



In the published report of the Snake Commission, 

 by Drs. Ewiirt, Eichards and Mackenzie, in the experi- 

 ments given as to the least amount of poison required 

 to kill, no animal died after thirty-two hours ; and the 

 one case that lived that time, it is clear from the 

 history, died of nerve affection. Of the rest that sur- 

 vived, though many of them had the most serious nerve 

 symptoms, not one appears to have given any evidence 

 of blood alteration. The microscope, also, gives no 

 evidence of structural change in the blood. In cobra- 

 poisoning, also, albumen in the urine is unknown. In 

 animals that have suffered most severely from nerve 

 symptoms, in which I have tested the urine, albumen 

 has not been present in a single instance, either in 

 fatal or non-fatal oases. When, however, artificial 



