“The truth of the above statements is attested by six doctors, and is also vouched for by the Commissioner and Magistrate of the military cantonment, who, although not medical men, have, nevertheless, had long experience of Indian matters.” IX.--Case recorded by Binode Bihari Ghosal, Assistant-Surgeon, Jangipur (“A Case of Snake-bite [Cobra?].--Recovery,” _Indian Medical Gazette_, January, 1905, p. 18). “While fastening her door about 10 o’clock one night a Hindu woman was bitten by a cobra in the left foot, about 1 inch above the metatarso-phalangeal joints of the second and third toes. About ten minutes after the bite natives applied three strong ligatures, one above the ankle, one below, and one above the knee-joint. Four hours later ‘Fowl’ treatment was applied, which it appears gives marvellous results. The author arrived about nine hours after the accident, during the ‘Fowl’ treatment, for which nineteen chickens had already been sacrificed. In spite of this the patient was pulseless (no radial pulse--the brachial pulse was thready and flickering); respiration about six per minute. An injection of strychnine improved her condition for a few minutes. When the incision, which had been made over the bite, was crucially enlarged, large quantities of dark blood were withdrawn by cupping. In spite of this the patient’s condition grew worse, and her respiration fell to three a minute; she then received an injection of 10 c.c. of Calmette’s serum in the left buttock. The pulse immediately became stronger, and respiration increased to ten per minute. About half an hour after the first, a fresh injection of 10 c.c. of serum was given in the same place. Within five minutes the appearance of the patient, who had seemed to be dying, became normal. The pulse grew stronger, and respiration was about fifteen per minute. One hour after the injections the patient was practically cured. “The ‘Fowl’ treatment consists in applying directly to the wound, after the latter has been slightly enlarged by means of an incision, the anal apertures of living fowls, from which the surrounding feathers have been removed. The fowl immediately becomes drowsy, its eyes blink, and its head falls on its breast with the beak open, after which the bird rapidly succumbs. Twenty fowls had been employed in the present case, but in vain.” (The author does not appear to have troubled himself to ascertain whether the fowls were really dead, or had merely fallen into a hypnotic condition.) X.--Case reported by Major G. Lamb, I.M.S., Plague Research Laboratory, Parel, Bombay, October 18, 1900.