374 VENOMS 



Australia, health authorities' notices against venomous reptiles, 100. 

 „ mortality from snake-bite in, 100, 261. 

 ,, poisonous snakes of, Sl'lOO. 

 ,, snakes of, almost all confined to sub-family ElapincB, 5. 



Bacteriolytic action of venoms, 206. 



,, ,, ■ ,, how differing from that of rat-serum, 208. 



BaUey, action of venom on brain, 185. 

 Batraohians, 312. 

 Bairackiidts, 302. 

 Batrachus grunniens, 302. 



tau, 302. 

 Bavay on the spitting snake, 63. * 



Bee-sting, remedies for, 286. 

 Bees, venom of, 282. 

 Bertrand, researches of, 147. 

 Bertrand and Phisalix, experiments on immunity of hedgehog to venom, 226. 



,, ,, preparation of toad-venom, 319. 



Bettencourt, R., venom antitoxin treatment of yellow fever, 184. 

 Bibron and Dum^ril on coloration of snakes, 16. 



„ ,, I'lTo/as worship in Egypt, 61. 



Bile, destructive effect on cobra- venom, 215. 



Birds, symptoms after inoculation with lethal doses of venom, 172. 

 Bitis, 69. 



,, arietans (puS adder), 69. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, bite from, 350. 



,, „ „ „ venom used for poisoning arrows by Hottentots, 72. 



,, atropos, 72. 

 ,, caudalis, 73. 

 cornuta, 73. 

 ,, gabonica, 73. 



,, ,, does not attack man, 74, 



,, inornata, 72. 

 „ peringueyi, 72. 

 Black snake, 88. See also Pseudechis porphyriacus. 

 Blin, bite from Cerastes, 349. 

 Blindness following bite of viper, 178. 

 Blood, anticoagulant action of venom on, mechanism of, 195. 



,, coagulability, action of venom of Lachesis lanceolatus on, 191. 

 ,, ,, destroyed by venoms of ColubridcB, 179, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193. 



„ ,, „ „ certain species of Crotalmce, 191, 192, 193. 



,, „ uncertain action of venom of Vipera berus on, in certain animals, 



189, 190. 

 ,, coagulation of, connected with action of venoms of Viperidce on nervous system 



185, 186. 

 ,, ,, produced by venoms of Viperidce, 179, 188, 189. 



,, not coagulated after death caused by venoms of Colubridm, 171, 188, 189. 

 ,, of hedgehog toxic before heating, antitoxic afterwards, 226. 

 ,, of scorpion antitoxic, 279. 



