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He \vas not seen again ^^y the Hospital Assistant or Aij^self and 

 death was reported at 10 o'clock next day, 36 hours after the bite. 



(Bemarls. — There seems little doubt that the man was poisoned,, 

 but he appears to have recovered from the toxaemia. Twenty-six 

 hours after the bite he was able to swallow. It is impossible to say 

 what caused death, but it is possible that the unscientific native 

 treatment was directly responsible for this. — F.W.) 



No. 4. 

 Communicated to me by Lieut. -Colonel Dimmock, I. M.S. 



Bite from Cairuleus about 2 feet long. No toxsemia. Symptoms- 

 of fright. Recovery. 



A Hindu male, aged 35, was bitten on the doi'sum of the right 

 foot at 11 P.M. on the 29th November 1907, by a small krait,, 

 " about two feet long," identified as such at the Parel Laboratory. 

 At the Railway Hospital, Bombay, two punctures half an inch apart, 

 at the seat of the reported bite were slightly incised, and perman- 

 ganate of potash applied. He ^^'as transferred to the Jamsetjee 

 Jejeebhoy Hospital, where the punctures were freely incised and 

 permanganate crystals rubbed in. On admission he was reported 

 as " suffering from fright, pretended to be insensible but is quite 

 conscious." "In the night his pulse became slow and feeble, and 

 respirations shallow and hurried. Next morning he was quite 

 well and went home at noon." Internally he was treated with 

 ammonia, and hypodermically with strychnia. 



(Remarls. — No symptoms occurred other than those directly 

 referable to fright. . Ammonia and strychnia have both been proved 

 powerless agents in snake-bite, though, of course, they are powerful 

 restoratives in combating- fright — F. W.) 



THE BANDED KRAIT (BUNGARUS FASCIATUS). 



The Toxins of Easciatus Venom. 



(1) Toxins operating on nerve cells, 



(ft) A depressor that paralyses the respiratory centre. 

 (A. J. Wall.) 



