SNAKE BITE AND ITS ANTIDOTE. 
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3 p.m. Chicken standing up, and feathers drooping. .Does 
not seem very sick. 
Dec. 5 10 a.m.— Chicken found dead, probably died during 
the night, as it was alive yesterday (Sunday) at 1 p.m. 
In this case it may have been that not enough of the jaborandi 
was given to overcome the double lethal dose of the venom, but 
the experiment shows that life was prolonged after a dose of 
the venom which if allowed to act without hindrance would have 
destroyed life in about two hours. Another experiment was tried 
upon another fowl, a smaller dose of venom and a larger amount 
of jaborandi being given, but the chicken only lived two days. 
These two experiments would seem to show that in the case of 
fowls poisoned by serpent venom, jaborandi has only the effect 
of prolonging life. To verify the former experiment upon a 
rabbit it was resolved to again try the antidotal effect of the drug 
with the following result: 
Dec. 5—12:05 p.m. —Injected 10 minims of rattlesnake venom 
solution into right leg of rabbit, followed by 15 minims of fi. ext. 
jaborandi; also give 15 drops jaborandi, in water, in stomach. 
12:15 p.m. —Rabbit sluggish and indisposed to move, Respir¬ 
ation hurried, and animal seems very sick. 
12:30 p.m. —Gave 15 minims more of jaborandi hypodermi¬ 
cally. 
Dec. 6 — Rabbit appears perfectly well and is eating. Copious 
discharge of serum from wounds made by syringe, and a good 
deal of urination. 
Dec. 8—Rabbit appears perfectly well, but has a healthy 
looking raw surface near point of injection on leg, which is 
healing. 
Dec. 10—Rabbit well, excepting ulcer, which is healing. 
Dec. 12—Perfectly well. 
One more experiment was tried upon another rabbit, in which 
a fourfold lethal dose of the venom was injected, viz., 20 minims 
followed by 60 minims, at intervals, of jaborandi, with 60 by 
stomach, the animal recovering perfectly. From the foregoing 
experiments with the fluid extract of jaborandi it will be seen 
that while this substance appears to have antidotal effects upon 
