A FATAL CASE OP SNAKE-BITE; INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OP AMMONIA. REMARKS ON THE APPLICATION OP THE LIGATURE IN SNAKEBITE. By Vincent Richards. On the 28tli August I was called to attend a young man, in the Kooshteah bazar, who had been bitten by a cobra at 12-45 P. M. The man's friends had very soon after applied a ligature just below and above the knee. On arrival at the man's house, at 1-30 r. M., I found that he hud been bitten at the base of the great toe of the left foot. Native Doctor, Kamini Koomar Gangooly, had scarified the part and applied caustic. The patient was not then suffering from symptoms of snake-poisoning, though he had been undoubtedly bitten by I examined it and made it shed was captured. a cobra, which After re-scarifying the bitten part a large quantity of poisou,

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I sucked tlie wound for about twenty minutes. I also applied pressure from above downwards, and after waiting for about an liour I ordered tlie ligature to be loosened as the patient was complaining of great agony. Having other duty to perform, I left tlie patient in the care of the native doctor whom I instructed to send for me should symptoms of snakeThe native doctor states that after my poisoning occur. departure "the man took a poicah of boiled milk ( for he had not taken regular food from the preceding night up to that moment.), and a little while afterwards he took some brandy, minutes /bout ten after, he began to show the following symptoms which I thought were the effects of the brandy wliicli had to him :?1.?Difficulty of opening his l?

A Fatal Case of Snake-Bite; Intravenous Injection of Ammonia. Remarks on the Application of the Ligature in Snake-Bite.

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