166 C. J. MARTIN. 
Ex. LV.—Slut, weight 8°4 kilos. 
10°0 a.m., sample of blood taken. oS 
10:30 ,, 01625 gramme of venom subcutaneously injected — : 
in lumbar region. : 
11°50 ,, (very drowsy, vomited, shivering). a 
12°30 p.m., sample of blood taken. ' 
3°30 ,, delirious, temperature 99-4, heart irregular. 
60 ,, (comatose, temperature 95-6) 
8:0 ,, sample of blood taken. | 
90  ,, (comatose, temperature 90-3). 
4:0 ,, sample of blood taken, (comatose). : 
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100, “hed, 
Number of Corpuscles. | 
| Red in10 | White in 100° : 
= ian | oan 
Before injection ... het aA 546 155 4 
2 hours afterwards bs te 471 25 
54 hours afterwards _ Bess 382 27°5 
9: hours afterwards me 361 | 
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I have mentioned that venom, when mixed with blood on # ( 
slide prevents the display of amceboid activity on the part of _ . 
white cells. That the same interference with the vital activity 
experiment, which is one of a series with similar results. 
Two small pieces of sterilised sponge about 1 m.m. cube were 
aseptically introduced into the abdominal wall of a guinea-pis: 
One of these little sponges had been soaked in a “77% solution 
NaCl containing | %, of venom, the other in the saline without 
the venom. Both sponges were pushed about a centimetre awa) 
from the incision, which was afterwards drawn together by [ 
horse-hair suture, and covered with collodion. After two hours 
swelling arose round the venom-containing sponge, whereas © | 
other remained of the original size. At the expiration of five 
hours the animal was killed and both sponges very 
withdrawn and plunged into absolute alcohol. 
