A catalogue of the scientific and literary work of S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1894
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    Mitchell, M.D.—Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Biological department, April, i860, page 4. No. 12. The production of cataract in frogs by absorption of cane sugar. The facts of this curious little paper were, I think, in part ante- dated a few months by some remarks of Bernard unknown to me when I wrote.—American Jourjtal of the Medical Sciences, N. S., vol. xxxix., page 106. No. 13. Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake, with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned. Smith- sonian Contributions to Knowledge; quarto, pp. 150, July, i860. This quarto, with its many drawings, was the result of four years of such small leisure as I could spare amidst the cares of constantly increas- ing practice. The story of the perils and anxieties of this research, embarrassed by want of help and by its great cost, is untold in its pages. It was the parent of renewed Indian researches. So far as the habits, anatomy, and physiology of serpents are concerned, no one has bettered this work. An enormous addition was made in it to venom toxi- cology ; that venoms are respiratory poisons was settled by it, and the patholog)^ was also much advanced ; many questions of antidotes were set at rest. It contained, of course, errors, now cor- rected in the later researches of the author, and.