“The ‘Fowl’ treatment consists in applying directly to the wound, after the latter has been slightly enlarged by means of an incision, the anal apertures of living fowls, from which the surrounding feathers have been removed. The fowl immediately becomes drowsy, its eyes blink, and its head falls on its breast with the beak open, after which the bird rapidly succumbs. Twenty fowls had been employed in the present case, but in vain.” (The author does not appear to have troubled himself to ascertain whether the fowls were really dead, or had merely fallen into a hypnotic condition.)
X.—Case reported by Major G. Lamb, I.M.S., Plague Research Laboratory, Parel, Bombay, October 18, 1900.
“Ten days ago I was bitten by a large cobra, from which I was collecting venom. I had only some very old serum in the laboratory, but I immediately gave myself an injection of 18 c.c. Three hours after being bitten I felt faint, my legs became paralysed, and I was seized with vomiting. In the meantime, fresh serum had been obtained at a chemist’s, and I received an injection of 10 c.c. The symptoms improved very rapidly, and an hour later I felt perfectly well. I applied no local treatment, relying altogether upon the serum.”
XI.—Case reported by Dr. Angier, of Pnom-Penh (Cambodia).
“At 11.30 one night in April, 1901, His Majesty, the second King of Cambodia brought to me in a carriage one of his wives who, when crossing the courtyard of the palace at about 8 o’clock, was bitten by a snake, which she said was a cobra (in Cambodian Povek).
“The bite was situated in the lower third of the leg, in front of the internal malleolus. The patient complained continually; she was suffering greatly from the leg, which was swollen as high as the knee. Great lassitude. An injection of 10 c.c. of antivenomous serum was given, half in the leg and half in the flank. The wound was washed, squeezed and dressed. Twenty minutes later the pain had ceased, and the patient went away, feeling nothing more than a slight dulness in the injured limb.”
B.—Naja haje (Tropical Africa).
XII.—Cases reported by Dr. P. Lamy, of the Houdaille Expedition.
“Lamina, a Senegalese, bitten on the outside of the left thigh, on February 18, 1898. Treated with serum. Recovery.
“Momo Bolabine, bitten in the heel on April 20, 1898. Ten c.c. of serum. Recovery.”