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Show Curlnc Cobra Bite With Strychnine. Some alleged instances of cures of cobra bite are reported from India, but there is always the doubt that in the "recoveries" reported there was really no poison injected, for the cobra does not inject poison every time it bites. It is stated that some cases of cobra bite have been cured by the hypodermic injection in-jection of 6trychnine, and full details will be awaited with interest, for it is possible that strychnine may be antagonistic antag-onistic to the peculiarly deadly poison ejected from the fangs of the cobra. The noison of that snake is. as a rule, bo rapirtly effective that tew occasions oc cur where a remedy can be applied with I sufficient promptitude to determine whether it is effective or not. All statements about alleged cures are, however, worth careful investigation, for an antidote may at last be found. English Mechanic. |