A. Calmette

PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION.

INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH EDITION.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PART I. CHAPTER I. GENERAL NOTES ON POISONOUS

CHAPTER II. HABITS OF POISONOUS SNAKES. THEIR CAPTURE.

CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES. THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.

PART II. CHAPTER IV. SECRETION AND COLLECTION OF VENOM IN SNAKES.

CHAPTER V. THE CHEMICAL STUDY OF SNAKE-VENOMS.

CHAPTER VI. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF SNAKE-VENOMS. A.

CHAPTER VII. PHYSIOLOGY OF POISONING ( continued ). Effects of

CHAPTER VIII. PHYSIOLOGY OF POISONING ( continued ). Action of Venoms on the Blood.

CHAPTER IX. PHYSIOLOGY OF POISONING ( continued ).

CHAPTER X. TOXICITY OF THE BLOOD OF VENOMOUS SNAKES.

CHAPTER XI. NATURAL IMMUNITY OF CERTAIN ANIMALS WITH RESPECT TO SNAKE-VENOMS.

CHAPTER XII. SNAKE-CHARMERS.

PART III. ANTIVENOMOUS SERUM THERAPEUTICS. CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV. NEUTRALISATION OF VENOM BY ANTITOXIN.

CHAPTER XV. TREATMENT OF POISONOUS SNAKE-BITES IN MAN AND

PART IV.

CHAPTER XVI. 1. INVERTEBRATES.

CHAPTER XVII. VENOMS IN THE ANIMAL SERIES ( continued ). 2. VENOMOUS FISHES.

CHAPTER XVIII. VENOMS IN THE ANIMAL SERIES ( continued ). 3.

PART V. DOCUMENTS. I. A few Notes and Observations relating

II. A Few Notes and Observations Relating to Domestic Animals

III. Note on the Collection of Venom and the Treatment of

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

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VENOMS

VENOMOUS ANIMALS
AND ANTIVENOMOUS
SERUM-THERAPEUTICS


BY
A. CALMETTE, M.D.
Corresponding Member of the French Institute and of the Academy of Medicine, Director of the Pasteur Institute, Lille

TRANSLATED BY ERNEST E. AUSTEN, F.Z.S.

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