Report on the effects of artificial respiration, intravenous injection of ammonia, and administration of various drugs, &c. in Indian and Australian snake-poisoning, and the physiological, chemical, and microscopical nature of snake-poisons / by the commission appointed to investigate the subject.

Date:
1874
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Credit: Report on the effects of artificial respiration, intravenous injection of ammonia, and administration of various drugs, &c. in Indian and Australian snake-poisoning, and the physiological, chemical, and microscopical nature of snake-poisons / by the commission appointed to investigate the subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The truth is, that the employment of liquor ammonia!, morphia, strychnine, and transfusion, does not appear to have iTpTved the chances of prolonging or preserving the lives «toj^*3»££i^ ^witt is intended to show the results of the association of transfusion of blood with ammonia; the administration of strychnine, _ phos- phoric acid, and acetic acid, with artificial respiration m the Teatment of dogs poisoned by from two to three grains of the dried cobra-virus hypodermically injected into the cellular tissue:— s 55 Drugs, &c. Prom injection to the commencement of artificial respira- tion. 4 0 15. 6 Transfusion with ammonia .. Strychnine ... Phosphoric acid Acetic acid ... ... Average From the commence- ment of artificial respiration till death. Prom injection to death. Hrs. Ms. 1 0 0 0 5 27 35 22 37 Hrs. 14 4 9 24 13 Hrs. Ms. 35 23 20 50 17 15 4 9 25 40 50 55 12 13 54 Thus, when about half of the ordinary quantity of the poison which the cobra is capable of emitting is hypo- dermically injected into the areolar tissue of a dog which is subsequently treated both by artificial respiration and drugs, or by transfusion with ammonia, death is rather promoted than retarded. When the results in the third column ot the statement in paragraph 15 are placed m juxtaposition with those contained in the fourth column of this table, the truth of this observation becomes manifest:— Without Dhugs, &c. With Drugs, &c. Number. Period which elapsed from the commencement of artificial respiration to death. Number. Drugs, Ac. Period Which elapsed from Urn commencement i artificial respiration to death, 13 14 15 16 Hrs. Ms. 2G 15 14 47 20 25 18 0 4 9 15 6 Transfusion and ammonia Strychnine Phosphoric acid ... Acetic acid Hrs. Ms. 14 35 4 23 9 20 24 50 Average ... 19 51 13 17