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PLaTE V. 
Germinal matter, or free nuclei, and maculated nucleated cells from the 
blood of a rat poisoned by the Australian Black Snake. 
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x 400 diameters, 
From a drawing by Mr. Ashworth. 
T have collected a few cases of snake-poisoning in order 
to draw your attention to the state of the blood after 
death. 
Case 1.—Henwood, a soldier, aged 40, was bitten in the 
finger by a diamond snake of Tasmania, and died 92 hours 
after. The blood was fluid and dark, and fibrinous clots 
were nowhere found. On cutting into the lungs very dark 
fluid blood oozed freely. The absorbents were not affected. 
Case 2.—Cartwright, a man bitten by an Australian snake, 
died twenty minutes after. The whole blood of the 
body was in a fluid state, not one single clot was observed, 
nor did it coagulate when exposed to the air. The lungs 
were healthy, but filled with dark fluid blood, with black 
patches here and there. 
Case 3.—Underwood, a man bitten by an Australian snake. 
Dark fluid blood, with some thread-like clots, in the right 
ventricle. The lungs were very much congested, resembling 
in many parts the patches of pulmonary apoplexy. 
Case 4.—A man, aged about 30, keeper of the reptiles in 
the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens, was bitten on the nose 
by a cobra-di-capella, and died in 90 minutes. The blood 
was dark, alkaline, and fluid. The right side of the heart 
contained blood, the left side none. The lungs were con- 
gested. 
Case 5—A powerful man was bitten by an unknown 
snake. In this case it was remarked that spitting and 
coughing up of blood followed. The blood had no tendency 
to coagulate, neither did that which was drawn with the 
cupping-glasses, although the breathing was natural, and the 
aes action 90 per minute. He died 24 hours after the 
ite. 
Case 6—A sepoy was bitten by a cobra-di-capella. 
