SNAKE-BITE ; TREATMENT BY STRYCHNINE : RECOVERY, By A. J. Weatherly, m.d. Civil Medical Officer, Kurseong.
Aryore, 45, male, a Municipal mehter, was of engaged in cleaning a latrine on morning O O
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April last, when he was bitten by a karait' on finger. The Civil Hospital Assistant found the man 14th
afterwards insensible.
He treated by The patient was and when I saw him, about one hour after the bite, he was insensible ; respiration shallow; skin cold ; pulse feeble and irregular; conjunctival reflex lost. I incised site of bite freely and rubbed Condy's I then injected iV grain sulfluid into incision. of phate strychnine into arm. Gradually the pulse became stronger and more regular, body warmer, respiration less shallow, and in about e an hour the patient was able to tell me he had come out of darkness to the light', as he expressed it. Nothing more was done for the man, and he left hospital the next morning and went back to his work.
shortly
liquor ammonia and ligature. brought at once to hospital,
Aryore, 45, male, a Municipal mehter, was of engaged in cleaning a latrine on morning O O
O
m
*~j
(
c
April last, when he was bitten by a karait' on finger. The Civil Hospital Assistant found the man 14th
afterwards insensible.
He treated by The patient was and when I saw him, about one hour after the bite, he was insensible ; respiration shallow; skin cold ; pulse feeble and irregular; conjunctival reflex lost. I incised site of bite freely and rubbed Condy's I then injected iV grain sulfluid into incision. of phate strychnine into arm. Gradually the pulse became stronger and more regular, body warmer, respiration less shallow, and in about e an hour the patient was able to tell me he had come out of darkness to the light', as he expressed it. Nothing more was done for the man, and he left hospital the next morning and went back to his work.
shortly
liquor ammonia and ligature. brought at once to hospital,
