104 INDIAN SNAKE POISONS, 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE EELATIVE POWEB AND PE0PEETIE8 OF THE 

 POISONS OP INDIAN AND OTHEE VENOMOUS 

 SNAKES. 



In the preceding chapters attention has been directed 

 solely to the leading species of Indian venomous snakes, 

 and the differences that exist between the poisons of 

 the colubrine and yiperine tribes. Before proceeding to 

 consider the effects of any other snakes, it will be well 

 to sum up the points of which these differences consist. 

 In viper-poisoning, as seen in the case of the daboia, 

 there is first, if a fair quantity of poison be introduced, 

 intense and sudden general primary convulsions, which 

 may be at once fatal or may rapidly be succeeded by 

 general paralysis and death, or they may be recovered 

 from to a certain extent, paralysis and death following 

 later. The paralysis, which may occur without con- 

 vulsions, is general, and does not affect any special 

 nerve centres, and is attended also with great muscular 



