Venoms : venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics / by A. Calmette; translated by Ernest E. Austen.

  • Calmette, A. (Albert), 1863-1933.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Venoms : venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics / by A. Calmette; translated by Ernest E. Austen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    squeezing too hard (fig. 15), taking care at the same time not to give the body a chance of coihng itself round anything. Next, one or more lumps of beef or horse-flesh are introduced into the jaws, and gently forced down deep into the oesophagus by means Fig. 17.—Catching a Cobra-di-Capello {Naja tripudians), Fibst Stage. (At the French Settlement of Poddicherry, in India.) of a glass rod, which is polished in order not to injure the mucous membrane. The oesophagus is then gently massaged in a down- ward direction, in order to cause the bolus of food to descend into the stomach (fig. 16). This operation is repeated every fortnight. In this way, at my laboratory, I have been able to preserve, in perfect condition for more than two years, Indian Cobras and