114 THE POISONOUS SNAKES OF INDIA. 



An enormous retro-peritoneal hasmorrhage distended the left side 

 of the abdominal cavity extending from the diaphragm to the brim 

 of the pelvis, but not crossing the middle line. The blood forming 

 the haemorrhage was dark, and had formed a curiously tough 

 stringy clot, which was not easily broken up. It was impossible to 

 discover what vessel was the source of bleeding ; the arterial system 

 generally was not atheromatous and the vessels of the kidney did 

 not show any gross degenerative changes. 



I satisfied myself that the hsemorrhage had no connection with 

 the spleen or kidney (enquiries as to whether he had fallen or 

 sustained any injury subsequent to the snake-bite produced no 

 evidence of trauma). 



I examined the snake which bit this man and identified it as an 

 Eehis carinata, 12 inches long; this has subsequently been kindly 

 confirmed for me by the Bombay Natural History Society. 



No. 2. 



Bite from Echu, about 2 feet long. Toxsemia. Death 9 days 

 later. 



Reported by me in the Bombay Natural History Journal ( \'o]. 

 XX, page 522). 



A Mr. Neale was bitten below the inner bone of the right ankle 

 on the night of the 1 2th of May by a snake which he saw and 

 described as being about two feet long. He was wearing socks at 

 the time. He came indoors, applied a ligature above the ankle, 

 and unable to persuade his servants to cut open the site of the 

 injury had to do so himself, making two superficial incisions with 

 a razor, and then he applied crystals of permanganate of potash. 

 From the notes I conclude that the incisions and the application 

 of the salt were not what a Surgeon would consider at all satis- 

 factorily performed. 



He passed a restless night, and in the morning sent for a local 

 snake charmer, who gi-asped the tissiies as well as he could two or 

 three times with his teeth, and sucked with the idea of forcibly 

 extracting the poison. Being in gi-eat pain, he sent for an 



