SNAKE BITE AND ITS ANTIDOTE. 
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thereby give the system a chance to eliminate the poison. They 
were successful in prolonging life, but eventually all the animals 
died from the venom. It may be worth while to further mention a 
few popular remedies that have been recommended and used from 
time to time. 
Cazentre, in Jour, des Conn. Med. Chir., Paris, 1850, 182, 
recommends cedron, the seeds, if in powder, three or four grains 
bruised and put in a teaspoonful of brandy or alcohol and swal¬ 
lowed, powder put on wound also. Natives chew it up and swal¬ 
low. Viand-Gran d-Marais in the Rev. Med. Franc, et Etrang ., 
Paris, 1874, I., 362, recommends the same substance, giving 
statements of cases cured. He also strongly commends the guaco. 
The liquor potassa cure has met with some degree of favor, 
but the evidence is conflicting, as the following notes will show : 
Dr. J. Shortt, in Med. Times and. Gaz ., London, 1873, II., 
215, reports a case in which he gave to a man bitten by a venom¬ 
ous snake, Bungarus arcuatus , in the first forty-eight hours 72 
ounces of brandy and 4£ ounces of liquor potassa by the mouth; 
14 ounces of brandy, 3J ounces of liquor potassa by enemata, 4 
ounces in a bath. Gave 20 minims in 1 ounce of brandy every 
twenty minutes, wound scarified and alkaline bath given. Bitten 
May 16; got well May 27. Dr. Shortt claims that this is the 
third case of snake bite saved by the potash treatment. H. Es¬ 
mond White reports a case, page 413 of same journal, in which 
potassa treatment with brandy failed, death occurring in one 
hour and twenty-five minutes. 
Dr. E. B. Shapleigh reports a case in the Amer. Jour. Med. 
Sci., Philadelphia, April, 1869, n. s., 392, in which incisions were 
made in vicinity of injury. Brandy was administered freely and 
caustic potassa applied locally, but the patient died in forty min¬ 
utes. 
A host of other substances have been recommended, such as 
carbolic acid, olive oil, viper’s fat, to say nothing of scores of 
plants and roots, but space will not permit of a discussion of 
these at this time. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH EXTRACTINE PANCREATINE. 
De Lacerda announced his opinion that the injection of pan- 
