The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-17

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1t will be seen that the rattlesnake has by nc
means 80 po"efiui enc a. ~ nulAh COBRA,
and that there are at least nve other species OF
y, cohrs vonom tii,od 81. rnhhi, g. toot 800
,,u.. no much -, tho ro,,i..nat..s ,n dn ,ho
.h. a,f.-on,. 4, ,eo,, ,ooordi,, On ,ha Vs., 10
~ -. ~ = po'S
Calmette says:
"A rabbit can he killed in.tant,v nv intro
ducing a tenth of a milligram. that is, n tenth Of
O pinhead, Of dried cobra venom into the mar
rinal vein of its ear. The different ways by
which the venom can be introduced into the
animal organism are not all equally favorable
:, u. oh.nrr,,n, Tham,s, daraarorsi ia uhon
10 ao'orptioh inc most DANGEROUS Is "heh
1t is injected directly into a vein. Subcutaueous
IT, ,i,i,t'. w Sigo.a". an,n. -.
same venom is by no I means in A propor, 10 ,a to
I'M n rahh,, 40 =, dn.. ~ LII auIrao nia =,
,.. ri, mr, u.s. =. u"e !. 10 o,n hm ~ n1, 0os., ps DE ~
While Y lie the %0s same u s. '9@ant PG1o %iil Z XII i" q rsb aSat q
II applied to the mucous mem brane the venom
Of all serpents produces most intense intlamina-
tlOn. n single drop OF concentrated solution OF
eye OF a rabbit produces u serious. purulent
ophthalnia. These effects disappear of their
own accord after a few days.
When heated to lT8e Fahrenheit for at least
ten minutes the venom loses It's Irritating quail.
will no longer be Injurious II introduced into
ne eye, but Tii klll In the same dose as before
When taken into the stomach it is not mortal
for herb,vor2us animals or for monkeys,
ssometimlres it Is in this WY fatal to pigeons and
cause these creatures swallow. numerous small
venom from a snake bite is not necessarily dan.
gerous II it is done by a person the interior skin
broken; but IL there be a scratch or break in
this skin, then there might DO much danger.
venom ,n n of the Pet diilpre mt s Species sat u snake 's sho ths
Of diverse species should be very dissimiiarly
great variations according 10 whether the reptile
period at the time it was secreted. For eight
months they kept at the Pasteur Institute an
Egyptian cobra lNaja Hale. ali this time it
on its arrival G venom was taken from it.
head drop. killed a 3&-pound rabbit In fonr
hours. After two months fast one-third OF the
cisely similar rabbit IN the same time. At the
end OF the eighth month. when the snake died.
the venom was extracted from It's glands, and
OF this one-sevcEth Of the dose necessary in
the first case To kill n ~ pound rabbit killed a
4t-pound rabbit in the same time. All OF
stayed hungry the strOns err grew It's venom.
AS to the quantity of venom given out by
deadly snakes at a single bite. Dr. Calmette
SAYS that a cobra six and n half feet long GIVE
1913 milIiQrams. or pinhead drops. of iiouid
venom, which left, OH evaporation, from 30 TO
40 milligrams OF dry residue. A cobra which
not eaten for two months can give MS much
as 22O milligrams. The greatest quantity he
has found in the two glands after death was
l,l3B milligrams, leaving 4sO milljRrams of
dried residue.
Mac GRrvie Smith OF sydney. I'm experiment-
ing with the snakes Of Australia. found thai a
Pseuaschls WDrp uridcIIs. gave at
each bite a quantity OF iiuuid venom VARYING
from 100 to 100 millIgrams. while q tiger snake
IIOplOccphdlp CURTIS, gave 65 to l5O miIicrnms'
From the two glands OF n West Indian Fer dc
Lance Dir. Calmett pressed out 34O mliiiQrnms.
and from a Kentucky Tnttiesnnke. CTDtuTLS
about A feet 10 inches In length. J7O
milIigrains,
AS TO the chemica nature Of tho venom, the
question is not settled. DR., Weir Mitchell
Iir,t, a peptnne Cpeutiu venom whose action Ia
very slow and onlycauses local effects sweIIing
nd nlrerntion, Second. Qi0bulin venom which
the para. nlobullnes. The yirulenoa
of this is very considerabIe' and IL causes the
blood 10 alter through tho tissues surro,Indinu
toxlclty IN very dnuLtfrI' $1,000
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