eived from the Hon. Dr. Creed, the able editor
of the _A. M. Gazette_, would probably be struggling yet for the
introduction of his antidote. When it is considered that, in spite
of such evidence as here produced, his discovery has as yet
received no official recognition from any of the Australian
medical authorities, and that even now there are medical men who
can write such effusions as that of Dr. T. L. Bancroft, of
Brisbane, beginning with the words: "It is deplorable to still see
recorded cases of snakebite treated with strychnine, &c.," (see
_Gazette_ for July, 1892)--the attitude assumed from the first by
Dr. Creed and his unfailing advocacy of the antidote can not be
too highly appreciated and lay both the writer and the public
under a debt of deep gratitude to him. But for his early
recognition of the soundness of the writer's theory and treatment
of snakebite many valuable lives now saved would have been lost.
As early as June, 1889, Dr. Creed wrote in an editorial: "We
desire to call the special attention of the profession to Dr.
Mueller's papers on the pathology and cure of snakebite, published
in our issues for Nov., Dec., Feb, April and May last, and to
press upon them the justice and, we submit, the necessity of
extremely careful consideration of his theory and of the results
shown in the cases in which, acting on it, he has used hypodermic
injections of strychnine for the treatment of snakebite. We
formerly expressed our concurrence in the opinion of Sir Joseph
Fayrer, who wrote: 'I do not say that a physiological antidote is
impossible, all I assert is, that it is not yet found.' We are
indeed pleased to state that we believe such an antidote is now
found and that Dr. Mueller is the happy discoverer. We are of
opinion that his theory as to the pathological changes set up in
the human system by the injection of snake-poison is a sound one
and that the treatment he has suggested and used is correct and
proper, and the one likely to avert death in cases of snakebite,
which would otherwise in all probability prove fatal. We therefore
press the use of hypodermic injections of strychnia in the manner
described by him upon the attention of practitioners who may have
to treat cases in which the symptoms present are the result of
snake or dangerous insect poison, and thin