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siderable elevations of temperature, and great muscular 

 weakness. Purulent discharges take place from the 

 eyes, nose, and rectum, but there is no tendency to 

 hsemorrhage. There is albumen in the urine, but no 

 blood or haemal colouring-matter. There is no special 

 paralysis of the tongue and larynx. At last death ends 

 the exhausted condition to which the victim has been 

 reduced. The symptoms, it will be seen, are equally 

 distinct, on the one hand, from those of the acute form, 

 or from cobra-poisoning ; and on the other, from daboia 

 or viper-poisoning. The contrast between this poison 

 and that of the cobra is most striking. In cobra- 

 poisoning, the most prolonged fatal case on record took 

 forty-nine hours and nine minutes, and it was shown 

 in treating of that poison that even very severe sym- 

 ptoms might be completely recovered from. But in the 

 case of poisoning by the Bungarus fasciatus, we cannot 

 for certain say till after five days have elapsed whether 

 we may have to deal with a fatal disease or not. 



Local Effects of the Bite of the Bungarus 

 Fasciatus. 



There is, after the bite of this snake, the same local 

 pain produced as in the case of the other snakes 

 described. The condition of the parts, also, is one of 

 inflanmation, but the discolouration is much less than 

 that found in cobra-bite ; but there is usually a large 



