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

  • Mueller, A.
Date:
1893
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    the pathological changes set up in the human system by the injection of snake-poison is a sound one and that the treatment lie has suggested and used is correct and proper, and the one likely to aveit death in cases of snakebite, which would otherwise in all probability prove fatal. We therefore press the use of hypodermic injections of strychnia in the manner described by him upon the attention of practitioners who may have to treat cases in which the symptoms present are the result of snake or dangerous insect poison, and think that, should the patients die without its having been used, all will not have been done to save life that might have been.” With- out such utterances repeated from time to time and without the ample space always allowed in the Gazette to the subject, a record like that now submitted would not have been possible. Cask 6.—P. Evans, a girl of 20 years, bitten on wrist by a brown snake. Symptoms—Staggering gait, drowsiness, &c. Only *6th grain in four injections. Notes furnished by Drs. Mahoney and Kennedy, of Albury. Case 7.—W. Thiplin, a labourer, bitten on hand by brown snake. Three injections. Notes by Dr. Baird of ITealesville. Case 8.—Luke Dewhurst, labourer, bitten on hand by tiger snake. Cured by one injection of m. xv. liq. strychnine after ammonia had failed. Notes by Dr. Dutton, of Lillydale. Case 9.—P. Moroney, labourer, bitten on thigh at night, snake not identified. Cured by three injections of /2th grain each. Notes by Dr. Pardey, of Myrtleford. Case 10.—Mrs. Skinner, bitten on thigh, at Carrum. Treated by Dr. Verity. Case 11 —Child of Mr. Weeks, aged three years. Treated by Dr. Degner, of Myrtleford. Case 12.—Annie Rankin, servant, at Corowa. Treated by local chemist. Case 13.—Child of Mr. F. Daniels, of Mount Kent, Queens- land, only two years old, bitten by a death adder on fourth finger of left hand, the snake found clinging to finger. Ligature applied and