Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeuticsCalmette, A. (Albert)
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Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics
Calmette, A. (Albert)
Antitoxins; Poisonous snakes; Toxins; Venom
“Towards 6 p.m., that is to say about three hours after the accident,
I was sent for. The head and tongue of the cow were swollen, there
was foam on the mouth, and the animal had difficulty in breathing. I
injected a dose of antivenomous serum, from our first-aid station,
beneath the skin of the shoulder, and gave a second injection a few
moments later. The cow was then led back to her shed.
“At 9 p.m. she was quiet. The swelling did not increase, and the cow,
which had previously refused all food, ate a handful of hay.
“On the following morning there was nothing to be seen beyond a little
swelling in the neck. The animal fed as usual, and gave her normal
quantity of milk.”
XLIII.--Case reported by M. P. Rat, engineer, of
Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey, Ain.
“About 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 7, 1902, while I was out shooting,
my bitch was bitten in the lower lip by a very large viper. Since I was
a long way from home, I was unable to give the injections until 6 p.m.,
by which time the poor beast was in a pitiable condition. Her head was
as large as a saucepan; she had no strength left, trembled, and was
unable to stand. I injected 15 c.c. of serum in the left flank. This
was all that I did.
“At 7 o’clock on the Monday morning the bitch ate and drank a little.
She began to walk about, and by the evening had completely recovered.
There was nothing but a very little swelling left.”
C.--Cerastes.
XLIV.--Case reported by Dr. Boyé, of Kissidougou, French Soudan.
“At Kan-Kau, on December 19, 1896, a cow belonging to the post, which
had been bitten by a snake at 8 a.m., seemed about to die. The snake,
which was killed by the herdsman, was a _Cerastes_ (Horned Viper).
“On going to the cattle-shed I found the animal on her side and
panting, with the limbs completely relaxed. A thick foam was dropping
from the half-open mouth, and asphyxia seemed imminent. The cow had
been bitten in the teats, which were enormously swollen; the œdema
extended over the whole of the belly and inner face of the thighs. Two
doses of serum were injected, one at the base of the teats, the other
in the subcutaneous tissue of the flank.
“On the following morning the œdema had diminished, and the breathing
was much easier; the animal seemed to be conscious of what was passing
around it.
“Forty-eight hours later the cow was able to walk and went out to
graze, having apparently entirely recovered from the accident.”
III.--NOTE ON THE COLLECTION OF VENOM AND THE TREATMENT OF BITES
FROM POISONOUS SNAKES IN THE FRENCH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA.
By Dr. PAUL GOUZIEN.
Principal Medical Officer of Colonial Troops.
From the time of our arrival in India, in February, 1901, we turned our
attention to ensuring the regular collection of snake-venoms, with a
view to satisfying the desire for them that had been expressed by our
friend Professor Calmette, Director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille.
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