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tion, I have found it impossible to procure sufficient quantities of 

 Venoms of various origins to furnish each country with the poly- 

 valent serums corresponding to its particular needs. I have there- 

 fore been obliged to confine myself to preparing for the most part 

 antineurotoxinH, which I have been able to do, thanks to the 

 abundant provision of Cobra- and Bungarus-venomh, for which I am 

 indebted to the liberality of the Grovernment of the French Settle- 

 ments in India, and to that of my pupils and friends who are at the 

 present time in charge of the Colonial Laboratories of lodo-China. 

 Moreover, the recent foundation of the Serum-Therapic Institutes 

 of Bombay and Kasauli, Sydney, Suo-Paulo, and Philadelphia, 

 to-day renders it very easy for each country to provide itself with 

 antivenomous serum, either specific or polyvalent. Other institutes 

 will doubtless be established for the purpose of extending the bene- 

 fits of a method, the efficacy of which is sufficiently evident for 

 its adoption to be incumbent upon all those who are concerned 

 with safeguarding human existence. 



