Experiments in connection with the effects of snake-poisoning
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Correspondence between the Government of India, the Government of Bengal and the Indian Medical Department regarding the work of Surgeon-Major J Ewart's Snake-poison committee, and the secondment of Dr Wall for experimental work for the said committee. Includes an annex describing investigation...
Report on the remedy proposed by Dr Declat, of Paris, for the bite of poisonous snakes
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p 411-14. Report by Dr A J Wall, of the Snake Poison Commission, on Dr Declat's proposal to treat snake bites wth carbolic or phenic acid in the form of a "phenate d'ammoniaque". The appendix details seven experiments with carbolic acid, testing the remedy on dogs injected with cobra venom.
