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diluted with mxxx of water into the left saphenous Fein : no 

 effects. 



8 A.M. — Rattling noise in the throat ; respiration difficult ; 

 passed urine in his clothes. Liquor ammoniee, of the same 

 dilution, was injected into the right saphenous vein : no effects. 



8-30 A.M. — Breathing slow and noisy. Head turned on the 

 left side ; viscid saliva dribbling from the mouth ; pulse fair ; 

 extremities cold. Injection was repeated into the left saphenous 

 vein : no effects. 



9 A.M. — Died in convulsions, in the presence of Dr. Heffeman, 

 about 1 2 hours after the infliction of the bite. 



Post-mortem was not allowed. 



The snake which had bitten the man was caught on the spot, 

 aud brought to the disj)ensary alive. It was a vigorous krait 

 upwards of three feet in length. 



No. 2. 



Bite from krait, one and-a-half feet long. Toxaemia. Death in 

 5 1 hours. 



I am indebted to Colonel F. W. Dawson for the following : — 

 A keeper in the Trivandrum Museum was bitten on the right 

 index finger by a small krait, one and-a-half feet long, at about 

 1-30. P.M, 13th August 1907. The bite felt like a pinprick, 

 there was no bleeding, and indeed no mark whatever of a puncture. 

 He went home, having declined all persuasions to go to hospital, 

 and apparently stayed in his house till about 3 p.m., when he 

 began to feel a burning pain in the bitten finger. He walked to 

 a Hakim's house without any difficulty, and soon after arriving 

 suffered intense pain in the abdomen. At 5-30 his neck became 

 rigid so that he could not turn his head, and his body became 

 rigid so that he could not stoop. He was unable to talk. His 

 lespirations became laborious and coma set in. Frothy matter, 

 and a quantity of phlegm-like mucous passed with great difficultjr 

 from the mouth and nostrils. Towards the climax he had two 



