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On Snake-Poison: Its Action and Its Antidote

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On Snake-Poison: Its Action and Its Antidote

A. Mueller

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A doctor in snake country, A. Mueller studied how venom kills nerve by nerve and searched for something to stop it. His treatise reviews the history, traces the poison's action on the spinal cord and proposes an antidote. A vivid period record of frontier toxicology. Read one physician's duel with the serpent's bite.

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  1. 1ON SNAKE-POISON.
  2. 2ITS ACTION
  3. 3AND
  4. 4ITS ANTIDOTE.
  5. 5A. MUELLER, M.D.
  6. 6TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  7. 7PREFACE.
  8. 8HISTORICAL REVIEW.
  9. 9SNAKE-POISON AND ITS ACTION.
  10. 10Action of Snake-Poison on Special Nerve Centres.
  11. 11A.—Action on the Anterior Cornua of the Spinal Cord.
  12. 12B.—Action on the Medulla Oblongata. a.—The Vaso-Motor Centre.
  13. 13b.—The Respiratory Centre.
  14. 14C.—Action on Centres of Cranial Nerves.
  15. 15D. Action on motor-centres of Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia.
  16. 16E. Action of the Motor Cortical Centres of the Cerebrum.
  17. 17F. Action on Sensory Centres and the Reflexes.
  18. 18G. Irregularities in the Action of Snake-poison.

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