In casea where the drinking water is considered dan- 
serous, and it is impossible to get it boiled, bottled 
waters may be purchased st the expense cf the expedition, 
The weter supplied on board the steamers and in the ho- 
tels may generally be used without danger to health, 
Members of the expedition are particulerly cautioned 
aginst drinking the water from irriestion ditches and 
canals; also against drinking native beverages where the 
roe of the water is questicneble, It is very easy to 
ad atbteck of ‘$ropical dysentery if this latter. 
% observed. . mat ertine to t+ 
athlon Js not & ee Gace Lioned against eating too ereery 
or wncooked nebive fruits, and < Yr products such as 
the orpude sugar or *shendaga”® which is sometimes monde 
UMGF yery unsanitary vepeeapeate ridig Crude native 
Guceolats alsa frequent) 

Peruvian Exped 
treatmen 
cing of & sconstrict— 
ween the bite and 
ve kept on for sev- 
should be loosened for a few 
every hour; otherwise, gan- 
end oOccure 
wound wade by 
wound should be 
and sucked if 
ct Fy is 
c 
ughly into the wound 
Uobmdneniee of potash. 
of cardiac emma pre- 
ferably caffeine sodium—benzoate in two- 
€rain doses hypodermically repeated as often 
ag once an hou) oti ¥ilue of alcoholic 
stinula 8 exces nity doubtful.. There 
is no guest in ee tae that some indivi- 
duals bitt by rattlesnakes have died of 
whiskey poisoning, rather than rattlesnake 
poisoning." 
It 
{¥rom a letter of Dr 
of the Yale Medical 

