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SNAKE-BITES, TREATMENT FOR. 
There is at present nothing that heats the permanganate of potash and 
lancet outfit as supplied by Messrs. Smith, Stanistreet, of Calcutta. 
This instrument consists of a sheathed lancet with a space at its base 
containing crystals of permanganate of potash. It has been designed by on 
Lauder Brunton as an easily portable and immediately available instrument 
for the treatment of snake-bites ; and has been used by Dr. Leonard Rogers 
in a series of experiments which demonstrated, m the first place, that perman¬ 
ganate of potash when mixed with venoms of any class of poisonous snakes 
immediately destroys their action, and renders them inert and harmless, when 
injected into susceptible animals in quantities usually equivalent to many times 
a fatal dose; and secondly, that animals treated by the method described 
below at, from half a minute to half an hour after receiving from two to ten 
fatal doses of venom could be saved from an otherwise inevitable death. 
In a case of snake-bite, if the wound is on a limb, first apply a ligature 
between the bite and the body sufficiently tightly to stop the circulation, m 
order to prevent any further absorption of the poison into the circulation. 
This may be done by tying a handkerchief or piece of cotton clothing looselv 
round the limb, passing a piece of stick through it, and twisting it round until 
the pulse cannot be felt beyond the ligature. Then, with the lancet make a cut 
