March

RICHARDS ON SNAKE POISONING.

1, 1882.]

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. EXPERIMENTS WITH

57 is swollen and somewhat

./

PERMANGANATE OF

painful. The part sloughed the third day, but the animal was otherwise unaf-

on

PO-

TASH IN SNAKE-POISONING. I?y Vincent

fected. December

Richards,

wound

Lute Member of the Snake-poison Commission.

animal

(jContinued from page 5.)

2nd Series.

XXXII.

December 1881

?Hypodermically injected into the of dried cobra-poison in solution with 6 decigrammes of water,, at 3-34 p.m. 3 39 p. m.?Commenced to hypodermicslly inject into the same part 3 decigrammes of permanganate of potash in solution. The dog struggled violently and snapped viciously. I doubt whether the whole of the permanganate of potash came in contact with the poison, though it. may have done so. 5

of

p. m

a

dog

7

centigrammes

December,

3

m.

hypodermi-

quantities,

December 31st?It was ed part was sloughing.

At 9-43 A. M.

hypodermi-

cally injected into a large cally injected into a middle dog, weighing sized healthy dog,weighing healthy 5o lbs., half of the above 32 lbs., half of the above sulution of

cobra-poison.

cobra-poison 9-48

solution.

M.?Hypodermically injected into the same a.

part 2 decigrammes of permanganate in solution. Whined a good deal when

A.

M.?Is

extremely

restless. A.

brought back.

caught. injur-

The little

January 2nd, 1882.?Escaped.

M.?Refused food.

Salivated. 10-44 a m.?Extremely restless. 12-57 P. M.?Convulsed. 4-22 p. m.? IJead?in 6 hours 41 minutes.

the agent was injected. 9-58 a. m.?Is lying down an