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47 eleven inches and a half; has passed a large quantity of urine.

Feels a little sick, and the veins about the face are still rather gorged. Now speaks distinctly, and can fallow. Suffering rather severely from the pain in the arm.

From this time the arm got gradually better, and the man completely recovered.

In this case we have an example of severe cobra-poisoning, well described, in which the nerve symptoms were fully developed, and yet, when they had passed away, the man was at once in a state of thorough and complete recovery.

In the published report of the Snake Commission, by Drs. Ewart, Richards and Mackenzie, in the experiments given as to the least amount of poison required to kill, no animal died after thirty-two hours; and the one case that lived that time, it is clear from the history, died of nerve affection. Of the rest that survived, though many of them had the most serious nerve symptoms, not one appears to have given any evidence of blood alteration. The microscope, also, gives no evidence of structural change in the blood. In cobra-poisoning, also, albumen in the urine is unknown. In animals that have suffered most severely from nerve symptoms, in which I have tested the urine, albumen has not been present in a single instance, either in fatal or non-fatal oases. When, however, artificial