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THE TflANATOPHI 1)1 A OF INDIA. 
administered every half hour. He died on April 15tli at 8 a.m., 
sixty-one hours after the bite. The medical officer was of opinion i 
the patient died exhausted from want of food, which he steadily | 
refused to take from the time he was bitten. No post-mortem 
examination was made. 
The following cases are reported by the Civil Assistant- 
Surgeon of Seonee, C.P.:— 
Donajee, aged thirty-two years, was bitten by a snake, which 
was not seen, while asleep in his house, at 12 p.m. on March 
25th, 1870. He is said to have become insensible and died in 
five hours. The information afforded by the police was very 
meagre. The body was not sent in for examination. 
Nuggah, a Gond, aged fifty years, was bitten by a Cobra 
(Naja tripudians) while cutting grass on the banks of a river at 
3 p.m. on March 22nd, 1870. He became insensible, but re¬ 
ceived no treatment, and died in three hours. The body was 
not sent in for examination. 
The following case is reported by the Civil Surgeon of 
Saharunpore :— 
Lahea, a Mahomedan, was bitten by a snake (name not 
given) at 8 a.m. on July 26th, 1870. He did not come under 
treatment, and died seven hours after the bite. The information 
received from the police was very scanty. At the post-mortem 
examination the lungs were found much congested and of a 
dark purple colour; the heart empty, and the lining membrane 
stained with the colouring matter of the blood. Ihe abdominal 
viscera were normal. The blood was fluid ; the brain normal. 
When cadaveric rigidity occurred was not noted. 
The following case is recorded by Dr. Watson, Surgeon of 
the 45th Eegt. N.I., Mooltan:— 
Soorjun Eajpoot, Naik, aged thirty-one and a half years, was 
bitten by a snake on Aug. 31st, 1870, at 5 a.m. In going out 
into the jungle to obey a call of nature, he put his foot on a 
snake, which turned round and bit him on the foot. It hissed, 
but he could not see it, as it was not light enough. This 
occurred near the lines of the 45th Eegt. There was a very 
slight scratch on the dorsum of the left foot; he walked to the 
hospital; he was not at all faint, only frightened. The native 
doctor applied nitrate of silver very freely over the scratch. 
He was discharged from hospital in 29 days. 
Dr. Watson says—“ After the application of the caustic, 
which was so severe as to blister the foot, it became very 
painful and swollen. On Sept. 3rd he began to pass blood in 
large quantities with his urine, and complained of pain over 
the kidneys. The haematuria continued until Sept. 13th, and 
left him very pale and anaemic for some time, so that he was 
not discharged till Sept. 28th. I am unable to say what con¬ 
nexion there was between the symptoms and the snake-bite, 
which was a mere scratch; but he appears to have been quite 
well before he was bitten.” Probably there was no connexion. 
The snake was probably innocent, and the haematuria due to 
other causes. 
The following case is reported by the Civil Medical Officer 
of Mozuffergurh:— 
ravine stepped upon a snake (name unknown), which bit him 
on the instep of the right foot. He was admitted into the 
Aleepore Dispensary, under the charge of native doctor Ameer 
Bux, on Sept. 7th, one hour after receiving the bite, and is said 
to have been suffering from the following symptoms :—The 
bitten part, which was very much swollen as far as the knee, was 
throbbing and painful. He was in a drowsy state, and vomited 
frequently fluid tinged with blood. The faeces and urine were 
also bloody. The pulse was small and intermitting, but the 
breathing was natural. The bitten part, after being cupped 
and scarified, was fomented with hot water. Forty drops of liquor 
ammonite and ten drops of sp. ether, were administered every 
half hour. Epistaxis having occurred twenty-four hours after 
admission, and the ordinary styptics proving insufficient to stop 
the haemorrhage, it became necessary—so it is reported—to plug 
the nose. A croton oil purgative was also administered. After 
the third day the patient is said to have gradually improved, 
and when seen by the medical officer on Sept. 23rd, sixteen 
days after the bite, was convalescent.* 
The following case is reported by Dr. Murray, Civil Surgeon 
of Ajmere :— 
Sukhli, a Hindoo woman, aged thirty-five years, w T as bitten 
above the heel of the right foot by a snake (name unknown), 
at 5 a.m. on Aug. 11th, 1870, at Ajmere. On admission to 
the Ajmere Dispensary, the following symptoms presented 
themselves :—The whole of the bitten limb was much swollen. 
There was salivation; blood flowed freely from the nose and 
mouth, and was also discharged from the rectum. So great 
was the hsemorrhagic tendency, that an old cut on the sound 
leg bled for two days. Brandy, ammonia, and camphor were 
administered every fifteen minutes; a ligature was tied tightly 
above the bitten part, which had been incised ; and the foot was 
kept in hot water for twelve hours. She was discharged from the 
dispensary on Aug. 19th, eight days after admission. This 
case is analogous to one reported by the Civil Surgeon of Mo¬ 
zuffergurh. The snake was probably Echis carinata. 
The following case is reported by Baboo Chundee Churn 
Gfhose, in charge of the Police Hospital at Lucknow:— 
Ajudhia, a constable, aged thirty years, was bitten by a 
snake (species unknown) while answering a call of nature. 
When seen by Baboo C. Churn Ghose he complained of giddiness, 
a sensation of great internal heat, and intense thirst; his 
tongue was dry, and the conjunctive congested. Caustic was 
applied locallv, and a few doses of liquor ammonise administered. 
He was discharged from the hospital in five hours. The 
snake was no doubt an innocent one, but the case is interesting 
as showing the effects of fear in this instance. 
The following case is recorded by the Medical Officer of 
Kherie, in Oude :— 
G unes, Brahmin, a servant, aged twenty-five, was bitten by 
a Cobra—report does not say where—on Dec. 3rd, 1869. When 
brought under observation he was comatose; pulse weak and 
thready; had complained, it was said, of a sense of constriction 
in the throat, and was salivated. Thirty drops of liquor 
ammonia: given every quarter of an hour. He died just twelve 
hours after he was bitten. The friends would not allow a 
Ameer Chaud, a Punjabee Chuprasee, aged twenty-five 
years, while on his way to Aleepore, at the edge of a 
* The snake was probably the Daboia russellii, and the bite imperfect. 
