80 IlSfDIAN SNAKE POISONS, 



101° F. The fifth day the temperature was 99°-4 F., 

 and the symptoms remained unabated. He suffered 

 from hiccough, and the haemorrhage was unchecked. 

 He gradually grew weaker from the loss of blood, and 

 consequently died of exhaustion OD.the ninth day. 



It would be difficult to find a greater contrast to this 

 case of viper-poisoning than that of Dr. Richards's 

 instance of cobra-poisoning, where the man, after 

 suffering from severe nerve symptoms, was on the second 

 day quite well. 



There are in this case two points of interest. The 

 first is that the temperature was but very slightly raised 

 during the progress of the disease ; and the other, that 

 the symptoms, though they required so long a time to 

 prove fatal, yet commenced almost directly after the 

 infliction of the bite. It should be stated, also, that 

 even after the symptoms of hsemorrhage have showed 

 themselves a complete recovery is possible. We may 

 conclude, then, that in this form of poisoning, when the 

 nerve effects have quite passed away, there lemair/ a 

 period of blood-poisoning as fatal to life as the nerve 

 symptoms themselves. 



In daboia-poisoning general muscular weakness is 

 much more marked than in cobra-poisoning. The 

 heart's action especially gives evidence of its weakened 

 muscular condition, which appears often to be the 

 immediate cause of death. '<' 



