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frog (Rana t.igrina), of the same size as the one in the 

 last experiment. 



11.38 A.M. Injection. 



1.8 P.M. Weak, but struggles oofsasionally. 



2.12 P.M. Some water discharged from nostrils. 



2.30 P.M. Lying down extended. 



5 P.M. Better ; able to move. 



8 A.M. Is apparently quite well. 



It remained perfectly well. 



Thus, while five centigrammes of cobra-poison will 

 kill a frog in seventy minutes, yet the same qumiiity of 

 daboia-poison will only produce comparativtly trifling 

 symptoms, and complete recovery will ensue. 



Local Effects of Daboia-bite. 



As to the local mischief caused by the bite of the 

 daboia, what has been said about the cobra miglit be 

 repeated here. But there are one or two poinis of 

 difference which are of sufiBcient interest lo be men- 

 tioned. The flings of the daboia, being much longer 

 than those of the cobra, produce a much hiiger and 

 deeper wound. I'rom this it happens that it, is much 

 more usual to find blood from divided vessels in daboia- 

 bite than in cobra-bite. The local action is also gruiiter, 

 the pain of daboia-bite appearing to be peculiarly severe. 

 The same acute inflammatory effusion can be fuuSd in 

 the daboia-bite, but it has much more the appearance of 



