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Camp to treat a native who had been bitten by a berg-adder in the 

 left leg, just below the knee. I immediately injected a dose of 

 Calmette's antivenomous serum in the left flank, and the wounds 

 were washed. The injection was given two and a quarter hours 

 after the accident. The patient was already very ill when I saw 

 him, and I have no doubt that, without the antivenomous serum, 

 he would have died. 



" On the following day he had recovered, and I saw him again 

 three months later ; since then he has not experienced any 

 functional trouble." 



F. — Hydrophiidae (Sea-Snakes). 



XIX. — Case recorded by Mr. H. W. Peal, Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta {Indian Medical Gazette, July, 1903, p. 276). 



" On April 1, 1903, at 7.30 p.m., a man was bitten at Dhamra, 

 in Orissa, by a sea-snake which had been caught in a fishing net. 

 He was not brought to me until 2.30 the next day, when he was 

 in a state of collapse, semi-unconscious, and unable to speak, with 

 eyes dull and almost closed. The bite was on the third finger of 

 the left hand, just above the first joint. The finger was swollen, 

 tense, and stiff. I gave the man an injection of 5 c.c. of antivenene 

 ten minutes after he was brought to me. Three or four minutes 

 after the injection the man with some assistance was able to sit 

 up, and said he felt much better. He complained of great pain at 

 the back of the neck and also in the lumbar region. He was able 

 to speak fairly coherently after a little time. His eyes were brighter 

 and he seemed to be aroused from his lethai-gy. 



" I had about one hundred living sea-snakes with me, belonging 

 to the three genera Enhydrina, Hydrus, and Distira. He identified 

 Enhydrina valakadien as being the snake which bit him ; so did 

 the men who were with him. The snake was said to be about 

 3^ to 4 feet long. 



" The antivenene did the man so much good, that he himself 



