CASES OF SNAKE-BITES. 157 
No, 33. A boy, et. 9; kind not known; died in 15 minutes. 
No treatment. Forty drops of blood from this patient, in- 
jected into the limb of a fowl, produced no apparent effect. 
No. 34. A man, et. 45; bitten by a Cobra; died in 15 
minutes. Rigor mortis in 1 hour after death. No treatment. 
No. 35. A man, et. 32; kind of snake not known, but sup- 
posed to be a Cobra; died in 3 hours; treated by an Ozah. 
No. 36. A boy, et. 15; snake was probably a Cobra; died 
in 10 hours. Treatment same as No. 1. 
No. 37. A young man, zt. 20; snake was probably a Cobra; 
died in 1 hour 30 minutes. Treatment same as No. 1. 
No. 38. A woman; kind of snake not known ; died in about 
3 hours. No treatment. Lungs intensely congested ; no 
rigor mortis. 
No. 39. A woman; bitten by an adder, kind not known; 
died same day. No treatment. 
No. 40. A man, et. 30; bitten by a supposed Cobra or 
Krait; died in 14 hours. Treated with the usual charms and 
incantations. 
No, 41. A man, et. 30; snake supposed to have been a 
Krait; died in 12 hours. 
No. 42. A man, ext. 27; bitten by a Krait; died in 9 hours. 
An autopsy showed coagulated blood in the body. 
Nos. 43, 44, 45. Three men were forced to allow themselves 
to be bitten by two Kraits and a Cobra; one died in a few 
hours, and the other two in the following day. Another man, 
bitten at the same time, survived. The scoundrels who 
caused these men’s death were sentenced to five years’ impris- 
onment. 
No. 46. A lad, «et. 14; snake was probably a Bungarus cer. ; 
died several hours thereafter. 
No. 47. A young man, et. 18; bitten by a Cobra; died in 
3 hours. Treated by the Kabirajes. 
