e returned, but coma continued. After a
second injection of m. xv. she suddenly became quite conscious,
and in an hour was fully restored.

CASE 31.--Reported by Dr. Mead, of Quirindi, N.S.W. John Simson,
aged 15 years, bitten by a death adder on forefinger of right
hand. Dr. Mead living 50 miles away, and the lad collapsing, a
layman, Mr. Robert Simson, had to undertake treatment, and
injected during the night m. 150 of a one in 240 solution of
strychnine, equal to 5/8ths of a grain. Dr. Mead, finding the lad
conscious and only a little drowsy, did not inject any more
strychnine until 2 p.m., when a relapse took place. He then
injected m. viii. of liq. str. P. B., and in half an hour m. vii.
more. The last injection produced slight muscular twitchings, and
subdued the snake-poison effectually, the lad making a good
recovery. The total quantity used in 13 injections was over
three-quarters of a grain within 18 hours.

CASE 32.--This case is another instance of the successful use of
the antidote by a layman, and can be verified by the writer, who
saw the patient, a girl of 14 years, after her father had carried
out the treatment successfully. The girl had been bitten by a
large brown snake whilst walking through a paddock, and very soon
afterwards lost the use of her legs, and for a time also her
eyesight. The symptoms being so very alarming, and the girl at a
distance of 35 miles from the writer's residence, the father at
once injected 1/12th of a grain of strychnine, and in a very short
time another 1/12th. The child then rallied somewhat, and a start
was made to bring her in, the father taking the precaution of
bringing the antidote-case with him. This was fortunate, for the
child collapsed several times, and each time had to be roused by
an injection before reaching the writer. When finally she
presented herself, walking into the writer's surgery with a firm
step, not a trace could be discovered either of the strychnine, of
which nearly half a grain had been injected, nor of the
snake-poison, also imparted no doubt in a fatal dose. The two
punctures on her leg, testifying to the size of the snake that had
bitten her, were the only tokens of the ordeal she had gone
through; and the only task remaining for the writer was to
congratulate her father (Mr. James Trebilcock, a