INDEX 375 



Blood, toxicity of, in reptiles, 217. 



J. ,, ,, confers partial immunity to venom, 218, 219. 



•1 „ ,, destroyed by heating, 218. 



„ „ in venomous snakes, 217. 



Blood-corpuscles, red,, agglutination by venoms, 202. 



,, ,, dissolution only effected by combination of venom with blood- 



serum or lecithin, 197. 

 , , , , dissolved by snake-serums, 219, 220. 



,, - ,, effects of venom upon, 196. 



,, ,, resistance to large doses of venom, 199, 200, 201. 



,, ,, ,, „ ,, „ explanation, 200, 201. 



,, ,, washing of, important before presentation to action of venom, 



196, 197. 

 „ unaltered under action of simultaneous doses of venom and serum, 220. 



,, white, effects of venom on, 203. 



Bombay, laboratory for production of antivenomous serum at, 248, 252. 

 Bonaparte, Lucien, chemistry of venom of vipers, 160. 

 Bothrops, bites from, 353, 354. 

 Bottard on venomous fishes, 288. 

 Boulengerina, 58. 



,, stormsi, 58. 



Brachyaspis, 95. 



„ curta, 95. 



Brain, comparative action of venoms of Colubridce and Viperida on, 185, 186. 



,, substance of, fixation of venom on, 186. 

 Brazil, Thalassophryne maculosa found on shores of, 303. 

 Brehm, on Crotalua confluenhis, 125. 



,, the iaboia, {Vipera russelUi), i6. 

 ,, Echis carinatus (efa, viper of the pyramids), 76, 77. 

 ,, reverence paid by Hindus to Naja, 38. 

 Broad-headed snake, 94. See also Hoplocephalus variegatus. 

 Briot, A., experiments with weever-venom, 298, 299. 



,, poison of Scolopendra prepared by, 280. 

 Bromized water, saturated, modifies or destroys venoms, 164. 

 Brown snake, 87. See also Diemenia texHlis. 



Brunton, Sir Lauder, on harmless ingestion of venom exceeding lethal dose, 214. 

 Bufo calamita (natter-jack), 318. 

 ,, mMsicMS (musical toad), 318. 

 ,, viridis (green toad), 318. 

 ,, vulgaris (common toad), 318. 

 Bufotalin, 319, 320. 



,, first active principle of toad-venom, and cardiac poison, 319, 320. 

 Bufotenin, 320. 



„ second active principle of toad-venom, and neurotoxic poison, 320. 



Bungarus, 30. 



,, venom of, active hsemolysing power possessed by, 199. 



,, cceruleus (common krait), bite, cure of, 337. 



,, „ „ ,, venom of, dose lethal for different animals, 174. 



,, candidus, 32. 



