102 INDIAN SNAKE POISONS, 



1.59 P.M. Heart only acting. 



2 P.M. Dead. 



The blood coagulated after death. 



Experiment XII. 



A fowl was bitten by a Bungarus coeruleus. 

 2.3 P.M. Bitten. 



2.10 P.M. Wings drooping. 



2.11 P.M. Eyes closed. 



2.12 P.M. Gasping respiration. 



2.13 P.M. Cannot stand; head drooping. 



2.14 P.M. Beak resting on the ground. 

 2.16 P.M. Convulsions. 



2.20 P.M. Dead. 



In all these experiments there is not one point of 

 difference to be detected between the symptoms and 

 those present during cobra-poisoning. In regular order 

 we have vomiting, salivation, twitching of the muscles 

 of the extremities, special glosso-laryngeal paralysis, 

 gradually advancing general paralysis, the convulsions 

 of asphyxia, and death. There is absence of albumi- 

 nuria and of local haemorrhage. The poison appears to 

 be identical in its effects with cobra-poison, and even in 

 virulence it does not suffer in contrast with it, for the 

 dog in Experiment X. died in twenty minutes and a 

 half. But though its effects are also exactly those of 

 its congener the Bungarus fasciatus, in the acute'^'form 

 of poisoning by that snake, I have not been able to 



