| Show eel blood for snake bite some years ago the naturalist mosse found that the blood of eels eele particularly that of sea eels contained a poison which acted when transferred into the human system similar to the venom of vipers although weaker inasmuch aa the eel poison brought about a reduction of the temperature of the blood as the snake poison based upon this fact professor 0 Phi salis salix made very interesting researches ce which he presented recently to the academy of sciences at paris he concluded that the blood of eels possessed imm unifying agencies upon poison he succeeded by heating a solution of eel poison to 68 degrees degreed C to destroy its virulence so eo that it was possible to inoculate a guinea pig with the fluid the only effect being the oe raising of the temperature by a few degrees this reaction of the organism was followed by a perfect capability to resist the poison of the vipers which was administered in a deadly dose 15 to 20 hours after the inoculation with eel blood but it absolutely failed to kill the animal even a very small email quantity of 0 the heated eel serum was sufficient to produce immunity from snake poison this thia discovery Is ia most moat important since bince it can be employed for imm unifying human beings against snake bites and if not top too far progressed it will even insure a more rapid recovery from snake bite it of victims who had not previously been immunised with the serum philadelphia record |
