about all that morning, and on my seeing him again he said he felt all right. This happy state continued daily till his discharge 7 days after : no untoward symptoms ever having arisen. I subsequently examined the snake and found it to be a black cobra, 33 inches long, and beginning to desquamate. To this latter fact, and that it had expended all its poison on the man's thick leather boot, I attribute the man's safety, as the remedies given by me could have had no possible effect considering the time that elapsed from the bite to their application. Only this year a poor native woman was bitten by a cobra about 100 yards from where I am now writing, and was immediately carried across to me, but died in 10 minutes after or about 30 minutes from the infliction of the bite. In 1875, when serving at Fyzabad, 1 had a man in the 51st K. 0. L. I. who appeared innocuous to snake-bite, and he used to bring plenty of all kinds to me for experiment. One I remember, a large grey cobra which he had caught the evening previous, we experimented with, and he allowed it to coil round his neck, arms, and legs and then it was made to bite a large pariah, which succumbed in 33 minutes. A few days after in my presence a krait bit him on the little finger, but prompt remedies were applied, and although for 2 days he was in great danger, still he got well. An account at length of his case was published in the Medical Times and Gazette, November 9th, 1875. The patient referred to as having been bitten on the 3rd September 1882, tells me (and I have no reason to doubt his word) that he was bitten about 3 years ago by a krait, and suffered no ill effects from it.

Bareilly, E. I., October 4th, 1882.

CASE OF SNAKE-BITE: RECOVERY. By James D. Gunning,

Surgeon-Major

A. M. D.

Oil the morning of the 4th September 1882, about 2-45 A. M., I was called to see a soldier who had been bitten by I got to him in a few minutes and found the a snake. patient (an old soldier of 26 years' service, of unexceptionable character and a very strict temperance man,) in the surgery, holding up his right hand which was considerably swollen. He told me the following history ; On the previous evening (Sunday) while at a prayer meeting at a Missionary's about 8-30 P. M., a snake was found to be in the room. It was close to the wall and making for the door, when he went at it and put his foot upon it to crush it. The sole of his foot rested on the snake's back, leaving about 12 inches of the head and neck free, so that the head had full play under the instep. The snake struck his thick boot several times, then he put down his hand to catch it by the tail, intending to swing it swiftly round and break its head against the wall (a common practice), when it bit him severely on the back of the middle finger of the right hand, at the articulation of the 1st and 2nd phalanx. The blood flowed freely, but he only wound his handkerchief round the finger to check the haemorrhage. The snake was killed and the prayer meeting continued till 10 p. m. ; after that he had some supper, and shortly after got into bed, when he fell asleep quickly; at 1-80 A. M. the pain of the finger and hand aroused him, both being much swollen, and he got up. He also felt very giddy and drowsy. Finding matters becoming serious, he had recourse to hospital, where I found him. The hand and finger were mulsh swollen (a ligature had been put on the wrist when he got to hospital.) Breathing quiet ; pulse 72, and eyes natural. The marks of the bite were very distinct, with a slight areola of redness about them. I at once injected a solution of permanganate of potash into each puncture and applied a poultice of ipecacuanha giving 3ss doses of Liq. Ammonias, brandy being objected to by the patient. He was kept walking