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CHAPTER III. 



The researches of Brunton and Fayrer, and 

 Weir Mitchell — The Indian Snake-poison 

 Commission — Artificial respiration — Experi- 

 ments with Australian snakes — Mr. Pedler's 

 analysis — GunninghaTU and Lewis's microsco- 

 pic examination — Ghevers on the effects of 

 venom on the blood — Dr. A. J. Wall's investiga- 

 tions — Sym/ptoms of cobra-poisoning resemble 

 those of glosso-laryngeal paralysis — Daboia- 

 poisoning, syTnptoms of; compared with those 

 of cobra-poisoning — Wall on the venom of the 

 rattlesnake. 



rpHE researches are now brought down to the time The researciioa 

 when Fayrer and Brunton were presenting and Fayrer, 



, . . . and Weir 



their valuable series of papers, on the physiologi- Mitcheii. 

 cal action of snake- venoms, to the Royal Society 

 of England. Dr. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, 

 had already finished and published his elaborate 

 essay on the venom of the rattlesnake. It 



