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Case of the bite of a poisonous snake successfully treated. 



By JOHN MACRAE, Esq. 



To JOHN FLEMING, Esc^. '^"' ' 



President of the Medical Board, Fort William, 



SIR. 



The disease in the human hody, consequent to the bite of the serpent, 

 from being so very rapid in its progress, has seldom afforded, to medical men, 

 an opportunity of observing, and accurately ascertaining, its symptoms, in its 

 more early stage ; and, for that reason, a complete medical description of it, 

 has been, as yet, a desideratum in physick. 



It has been lately my lot to have the opportunity, in my own person, of 

 ascertaining, from my immediate feelings, the several symptoms of this dis- 

 order, in its different stages, from the moment of receiving the poison into the 

 habit, until (when it had nearly overcome the powers of life) it was happily 

 counteracted by the use of medicine ; and my mind having been perfectly 

 collected, (though so deeply interested in the result,) while I made my observa^ 

 tions, they may be relied on as correct. And every communicalion, that may 

 tend to elucidate a sitbjcct so Utile luidcrstood, and of so much importance to 



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