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memory; the progress of the disease and succes- 

 sion of symptoms, had either not been attended 

 to or were indistinctly recollected; the same story 

 told at different times was found to vary in ma- 

 terial circumstances, and the marvellous too often 

 found place in the narrative. It is, therefore, to 

 be wished that the medical gentlemen in India • 

 would in future bestow more attention on this 

 subject than appears to have been done hitherto.* 

 Besides the Tanjore pill Dr. Russell recommends 

 either immediate amputation or the ligature. 



An impression prevails that the mansroose is 



e mangoose ^ ^ *-* 



reputauon proof agaiust the poison of the cobra, but 

 Fayi;er has shown that this animal succumbs to 

 the bite of a cobra as certainly as does any other 

 animal. The mangoose, if left to itself to attack 

 a snake, will invariably come off the victor, but if 

 pushed on to the snake to make them fight, will 

 probably be fatally bitten, as is recorded in a 

 case by Russell. 



A mangoose was made to approach a " katuka 

 rekula poda" — Daboia — and was accidently forced 



* Medical men do not even now know as much as they 

 ought as regards snakes. It is within my own knowledge 

 that a poor wretch lost his life by amputation for the 

 bite of au innocent snake. 



