On snake poison : its action and its antidote / by A. Mueller.

  • Mueller, A.
Date:
1893
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    Bullet.—“ Etude sur la Mosure de Vipere.” British and American Workers are the most numerous. Commencing with the century we have :— Russell.—“ An Account of Indian Serpents, collected on the Coast of Coromandel.” Later on, S. Weir Mitchell.—“Researches upon the Venom of the Rattlesnake.” Halford —“On Australian Snakes, and the Intra- venous Injection of Ammonia, in British Medical Journal, Medical Times, and Australian Medical Journal.” Jones.—“ On Trigonocephalus Contortrix.” Nicholson.—“On Indian Snakes.” Sir Joseph Fayrer.—“The Tanatophidia of India.” Also, “ Researches in conjunction with Richards, Brunton and Eward.” Wall -—“ On the Difference in the Physiological Effects produced by the Poison of Indian Venomous Snakes.” Proc. Royal Soc., 1881, vol. xxxii., p. 333. Among those enumerated above Wall is the only one who formulated a correct and thoroughly scientific theory of the action of snake-poison, which has since been confirmed by Australian research and by Feoktistow’s elaborate experiments. It is strange that, after finding the theory that explained all the phenomena, he did not follow it up by applying the antidote to which his theory should have led him.