“At 1 p.m., on October 31, 1905, a woman, aged 35, who had been bitten by a cobra, was brought to us from Khurda. After being at our dispensary for about an hour she became drowsy; she paid no attention to anything that was said to her, and merely replied that she felt sick. We thereupon injected 10 c.c. of serum. The woman did not even appear to feel the prick when the needle was driven into her calf. Immediately after this was done she dozed and went to sleep. The pulse was feeble, and the entire body cold. We were disposed to give a second injection, but, since we had only two bottles left, we hesitated to sacrifice one of them. At last, after sleeping for about half an hour, the woman awoke of her own accord, sat up, and began to recover her senses. Bodily heat returned almost immediately, and a few moments later the patient asked to be allowed to go home; she was, however, kept at the dispensary. In the evening she continued to complain of headache, but on the following day she was able to walk, and was quite well.” V.--Case reported by Dr. Brau (Saigon). "Nhuong, an Annamese agriculturist, on passing through a piece of waste ground beside the barracks, at about 5.30 a.m. on Sunday, September 11, felt himself suddenly bitten behind the right knee. He caught a glimpse of a large blackish snake, with all the characteristics of a cobra, including the raised head and dilated hood, gliding hurriedly away, but was unable to overtake it. "The seat of the bite merely showed two small blackish punctures. The part soon became painfully swollen, and the patient began to feel giddy. Other natives came to his help; he was lifted into a Malabar cart and brought to the Military Hospital, whence he was sent to my house, where he arrived about a quarter past six. "I entered the vehicle, and immediately drove with the patient to the Pasteur Institute. The only treatment that he had received was a ligature round the middle of the right thigh. The lower leg was enormously swollen, and the swelling was not stopped by the slight barrier formed by the ligature, but had already extended to the base of the limb. "The patient lay stretched out between the two seats of the vehicle, with head thrown back and eye-balls turned up and ghastly. His skin and extremities were cold, and his pulse was scarcely perceptible. In order not to lose time, he was not even taken up to the first floor of the Institute, but was carried to an inoculating table. He was then made to swallow black coffee and rum, and was given an injection of as much as six doses of antivenomous serum, which had just been received from the Pasteur Institute at Lille.