111. 



albuoiin kills by an ascending paralysis without 

 that implicatioa of the respiratory system, so 

 characteristic of the globulin, and — as he now 

 says — in a lesser degree of the acid albumin. 



It will be observed that these researches have 

 reference to cobra-venom — an analysis of viper- 

 venom being still wanting. 



Now, if Wolfenden is correct in his deductions 

 as to the destructive physiological action of these 

 proteids, we ought to find that the main factors 

 in the production of the phenomena of viper- 

 poisoning are the albumins. Until we have 

 before us an account of the analysis of viper- 

 venom, a few points of considerable importance 

 must still remain in obscurity. For example, 

 what occasions the primary convulsions of daboia 

 poisoning ? What is the cause of the difference 

 in the intensity of the local effects of cobra" and 

 daboia venoms ? How is the subsequent blood- 

 poisoning in the case of daboia-bite accounted 

 for, when it is almost, if not quite, absent in 

 cobra-poisoning ? 



I do not for a moment wish it, to be urid<-r- 

 stood that I underestimate ihe value of these 



