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

  • Mueller, A.
Date:
1893
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    strychnine. So, ordering strong coifee, I hurried to attend an accident case just admitted with severe haemorrhage, and left the boy in charge of a nurse, with orders to call uie at once if she saw any change. I had scarcely been away 15 minutes when the father rushed in saying his boy was dead, and indeed his statement seemed but too true. The child was lying quite limp, face blue, eyes half shut, extremities very cold, no pulse perceptible, no respiration visible. T at once injected m. x. of liq. strychnhe P.B. and made artificial respiration. He soon began to improve, and in about 20 minutes was able to speak. He was watched all night, but suffered no relapse, and was discharged on the next day. Cases 19 to 21, reported by Dr. Weekes, of Lithgow, N.S W. Dr. Weekes writes :—“ Within the last year I have had three cases under my care, all bitten by black snakes, and all in about the same place, on the outside of the calf of the leg. The patients were all comatose, exhibiting all the usual symptoms of snakebite-poisoning, and in one, my last case, the patient had convulsions. In all of them I made hypodermic injections of m. xv. liq. strych., and the effects were most marked, the patients being completely roused and becom- ing quite sensible and rational each time,” Ac. Case 22.—Mrs. Ryau, of Oberon, N.S.W., bitten on leg by tiger snake, comatose and nearly pulseless after three hours, treated by Dr. Kingsburry, amount of strychnine not stated. Case 23.—Benjamin Childs, bitten on finger by death adder, treated by Dr. Campbell, of Grafton, N.S.W. Case 24.—Rather remarkable. Reported by Dr. Lloyd Parry, of Emmaville, N.S.W., in Gazette of March, 1891, and further particulars in private correspondence with writer. A Chinese miner, aged 30 years, was bitten on the back of the foot by a death adder. His mates, deeming medical aid useless, did not send for Dr. Parry until death was imminent, and then only with a view of getting a certificate of death, and avoiding autopsy and inquest. When seen, three hours after infliction of bite, the man was deeply comatose and pulseless, skin icy cold, pupils dilated and insensible to light, lower