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going- to bed). Took no alcoholic or other stimulant. 

 Thumb, middle finger and index finger and part of hand and 

 wrist adjacent were not affected. Under side of hand did not 

 swell. My system was not affected at all, except the local 

 trouble in hand and arm. 



Swelling on back of hand was all gone by morning of 

 January 24, and by January 26 the swelling and inflammation 

 was mostly confined to the neighborhood of the bite, but 

 there was still some stiffness in the finger and back of hand 

 was still somewhat tender. 



The place where the permanganate was injected festered 

 and I pressed pus out of it on January 26. By January 28 my 

 hand was practically well and entirely so by February 1. 



