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by Dr. Sartre, recovered ; the other, who refused it, died within 

 twenty-four hours." 



IV. — Case reported by the Fathers of the Khurda-Mariapur 

 Mission (India). 



"At 1 p.m., on October 31, 1905, a woman, aged 35, who had been 

 bitten by a cobra, was brought to us from Khurda. After being 

 at our dispensary for about an hour she became drowsy ; she paid 

 no attention to anything that was said to her, and merely repHed 

 that she felt sick. We thereupon injected 10 c.c. of serum. The 

 woman did not even appear to feel the prick when the needle was 

 driven into her calf. Immediately after this was done she dozed 

 and went to sleep. The pulse was feeble, and the entire body cold. 

 We were disposed to give a second injection, but, since we had 

 only two bottles left, we hesitated to sacrifice one of them. At 

 last, after sleeping for about half an hour, the woman awoke of her 

 own accord, sat up, and began to recover her senses. Bodily heat 

 returned almost immediately, and a few moments later the patient 

 asked to be allowed to go home ; she was, however, kept at the 

 dispensary. In the evening' she continued to complain of headache, 

 but on the following day she was able to walk, and was quite well." 



V. — Case reported by Dr. Brau (Saigon). 



" Nfauong, an Annamese agriculturist, on passing through a piece 

 of waste ground beside the barracks, at about 5.30 a.m. on Sunday, 

 September 11, felt himself suddenly bitten behind the right knee. 

 He caught a glimpse of a large blackish snake, with all the charac- 

 teristics of a cobra, including the raised head and dilated hood, 

 gliding hurriedly away, but was unable to overtake it. 



" The seat of the bite merely showed two small blackish 

 punctures. The part soon became painfully swollen, and the patient 

 began to feel giddy. Other natives came to his help ; he was lifted 

 into a Malabar cart and brought to the Military Hospital, whence 

 he was sent to my house, where he arrived about a quarter past six. 



"I entered the vehicle, and immediately drove with the patient 

 to the Pasteur Institute. The only treatment that he had received 



