n, who
happened to be present, declared her to be so, and all attempts to
revive her useless.

CASE 4.--A. D., aged 15 years, a schoolgirl, bitten by a vigorous
tiger-snake on the outside of left leg, the snake also holding on
for some time. She at once tightened her garter above the knee and
ran home, a distance of three-quarters of a mile. The bitten skin
was at once excised, another firm ligature applied, whisky
administered, and a hurried start made for Dr. Thwaites', distant
30 miles, where she arrived five hours after accident. The latter
writes:--"She was then pulseless at wrists, cold as a stone, and
with pupils insensible to light. I could not perceive any
respiration, but felt the heart yet faintly fluttering. She was to
all appearances just on the point of death. I injected at once 17
minims of liq. strychniae. In about two minutes she sighed, and
then began to breathe in a jerky manner. In about ten minutes, on
my pulling her hair, she opened her eyes and looked around, but
could not recognise any one. Pupils now acted to stimulus of
light. In a short time she could speak when spoken to, but not see
at any distance. Her sight gradually returned completely; she kept
on improving, and in four to five hours after the one injection
she seemed quite well, but rather weak. I gave small doses of
stimulants till morning, and did not let her go to sleep till next
evening. She suffered no relapse, and her recovery was complete."

CASE 5.--This remarkable case was not published in the medical
press, but in many of the papers of Queensland, where it created
much sensation. The writer is indebted for an account of it to Dr.
Thwaites, who vouches for its correctness. It appears that this
gentleman acquainted the well-known explorer of Northern
Queensland, Mr. Johnstone, who is his uncle, and now police
magistrate at Maryborough, Queensland, with his success in
treating snakebite with strychnine. Mr. Johnstone, who during his
explorations had seen much of snakebite and many deaths from it,
wrote rather incredulously in reply, stating that our southern
snakes were innocuous in comparison with those of the north; and
that, having seen twelve persons bitten and die by the deadly
brown snake of the north (_Diemenia superciliosa_), he must
withhold his belief in the new antidote u