Show poisoned by a cobra the morning star of jaffka in ceylon reports the death of the taxidermist of ithe the victoria museum in that town from the bite ofa cobra tinder curious carious circumstances while feeding a cobra which he thought was harmless from previous extraction of the poison bag it suddenly bit his hand band for a few minutes he took no notice thinking the bite harmless i but pain and nausea soon began bean carbolic acid avas was applied ligatures were bound round the arm an incision was made at the bite and the blood of the arm was wholly removed various antidotes we reused were used but the unfortunate man lost the power of speech and soon after every muscle seemed to have become paralyzed and breathing entirely ceased artificial respiration was therefore resorted too to and this operation was unceasingly continued for nine hours when at last the patient made an attempt to breathe and soon regained consciousness enough to make his wants known he steadily improved until the friday the accident having taken place on a wednesday and then astonished those around him by stating that during the severe operation on wednesday night he was conscious of all that was taking place but was unable to make his feelings known not having power over a single muscle it would seem that the poison paray paralyzed zed the nerves of motion but not those of feeling for he could see and hear bear and feel although the physician even by touching in elt the eyeball could get no response either er of feeling or consciousness his partial recovery was however followed by a high lever fever and inflammation of tile the lungs and he died perfectly conscious on the following 8 sun un d daiy diy ty |