Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake : with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
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[1860]
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Credit: Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake : with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mental evidence. That in so varied and bo difficult a research, it may be found that I haw sometimes been misled, and at others erred in the interpretation of . is in. doubt to be anticipated. I began this work, however, without precon- 1 views, and throughout its prosecution I have endeavored to maintain that condition of mind which is wanted in experimentation, and that love oi truth which i- the parent of rational inferences.1 S. WEIR MITCHELL. 12-2''. Walnut St., Philadelphia. 1 Tlic reader who desires farther information in regard to the therapeutics of the subject, am! to tlie relative value of the various antidotes still in repute, is referred to a forthcoming paper, by the author, in the North American Medico-Chirurgical Review, in which the whole subjecl will be con- sidered from a purely medical point of view. The author takes this occasion to mention the omission in the medical portion of the present essay of the composition of Bibron's antidote. It contains five drachms of bromine, four grains of iodide of potassium, and two grains of corrosive sublimate.
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