INDEX. 235 
Family groups of serpents, four, 21 
eight, 22 
Fangs, poison, 47-48 
extracted, 58 
of aquatic snakes, 72 
loss and repair of, 100 
very long in Callophides intestinalis natis, 59 
Fayrer’s, Dr., report of cases of poison, 153-161 
Flame snake, 97 
Fontana, Abbe, experiments of, 120 
Formula expressive of poison action, 109 
Gall, animal, antidote for its poison, 9 
of snake, relation of, to its poison, 136 
an antidote to its poison, 148, 192, 199 
mude of preparation, 208-209 
administration, 210 
fatal effect of 100 drops, 226 
Gangrene caused by Viper-poison, 228 
Gunther’s classification of serpents, 21 
Halford, Prof. G. B., experiments with hypodermic injections of am- 
monia, 143 
Hering, Dr. C., Lachesis trigonocephalus of, 94 
Height above the sea, relation of to serpent-venom, 185 
Holmes, Dr., ‘‘ Elsie Venner,’’ reference to, 192 
Horned viper, Cerastes, 98 
Hydrophide, seven species, 68-74 
Impotency caused and cured by Bufo s., 224 “ 
Kabirdjes, ‘fathers in medicine,” their preparation and use of snake- 
poisons in medicine, 150 
Krait, 56, 160 
Lachesis-poison, sudden action of, 228 
vipera trigonocephalus, of Hering, 94 
Library of British Museum, 6 
Ligature, inefficacious in snake-bites, 138 
Lilienthal, Dr., on Crotalus poison, 227 
