EXPERIMENTS WITH SNAKE-POISON. 169 
Other experiments of Cobra-bites in fowls produced death 
in 8 minutes 15 seconds and 34 seconds. 
Daboia-bites in fowls produced death in 45 seconds and 35 
seconds. 
No. 79. A cat had 5 drops of Cobra poison, diluted with 
10 drops of water, injected into the leg; died in 1 hour 57 
minutes 15 seconds. 
No. 80. A fowl bitten by a Cobra was dead in 34 seconds. 
No. 81. A fowl had two syringefuls of blood from fowl 
No. 80 injected into the thigh; died in 3 hours 33 minutes. 
No. 82. A chicken had 25 drops of blood from No. 81 
injected into its thigh; it died 9 days thereafter greatly ema- 
ciated. 
No. 83. A fowl inoculated with Oph. elaps poison; died 
in about 45 minutes; the blood of this fowl injected into an- 
other fowl produced no apparent effect. 
No. 84. A Cobra bit another Cobra which was afterwards 
bitten by a-Daboia; it died in 8 hours 22 minutes. 
No. 85. A muskrat had 4 drops of the blood of a fowl 
(which had been killed by a Cobra-bite) injected into its hind 
quarters ; it ate a portion of the fowl from which the blood 
had been taken, and died in about 12 hours. 
No. 86. A fish bitten by a Cobra; died in 20 minutes. 
No. 87. A snail bitten by a Cobra; died in 32 minutes. 
No. 88. Three chickens bitten by a Cobra; died respec- 
tively in 38 minutes 10 seconds, 5 minutes 30 seconds, and 4 
minutes 30 seconds. 
No. 89. A dog bitten by a Cobra; died in 1 hour 3 min- 
utes. : 
No. 90. A dog bitten by a Daboia; died in 44 minutes. 
No. 91. A fowl had one leg firmly bound by a ligature and 
was bitten below the latter by a Cobra; dead in 16 minutes, 
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