On the Poison of Venomous Snakes and the Methods of preventing Death from their Bite

Abstract

THIS publication consists of a re-issue in book form of six papers reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The first four papers deal with the physiological action of snake venoms. They were first published more than thirty years ago, and then represented important advances in knowledge. They cannot, however, be expected to reflect the present-day knowledge of the action of snake venoms. The fifth paper, belonging to the same period, deals with chemical methods of destroying the activity of cobra poison, such as by chloride of gold or of mercury. The last paper, which was published in 1904, and is the only one of the series in which the last-named author cooperated, deals with the experimental results of the treatment of snake-bite by free exposure of the wound and local application of potassium permanganate.

On the Poison of Venomous Snakes and the Methods of preventing Death from their Bite.

Reprinted papers by the late Sir Joseph Fayrer, Sir Lauder Brunton, and Major Leonard Rogers. Pp. iii + 174. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 2s. 6d. net.