of Madras, who has
worked at this
subject, continues to recently done an excellent service in exposing the pretensions of a quack who endeavoured for his own private gain to impose an untried and unproved "antidote" on a credulous public. One of the most valuable of Dr. Fayrer's services in this matter is to teach us the utter so
long
devote his attention to it.
worthlessness of vaunted
DR. FAYRER ON VENOMOUS SNAKES. We gave our
readers,
in our last
work which Dr.
issue, a short review of the Fayrer has recently published,
magnificent containing the results of his labors and observations on the important subject of snake-poisoning. That these labors have as yet led to no practical results, nor given us any promise of the discovery of that
to
which all such researches tend?an antidote
Fayrer's. One thing is sure, our operandi of snake-poison have been rendered much clearer than they were through these experiments and researches. It is equally apparent that we must not ?is
certainly
no
fault of Dr.
ideas of the effects and modus
rest
satisfied with what has been done.
No
one
would more
Fayrer himself. We hope that he will continue to work at the subject, and that his work will stimulate others, according to their opportunity and ability, to inquire and experiment. We are glad to observe that Dr. Shortt, heartily deprecate
this than Dr.
"
He has
antidotes."
worked at this
subject, continues to recently done an excellent service in exposing the pretensions of a quack who endeavoured for his own private gain to impose an untried and unproved "antidote" on a credulous public. One of the most valuable of Dr. Fayrer's services in this matter is to teach us the utter so
long
devote his attention to it.
worthlessness of vaunted
DR. FAYRER ON VENOMOUS SNAKES. We gave our
readers,
in our last
work which Dr.
issue, a short review of the Fayrer has recently published,
magnificent containing the results of his labors and observations on the important subject of snake-poisoning. That these labors have as yet led to no practical results, nor given us any promise of the discovery of that
to
which all such researches tend?an antidote
Fayrer's. One thing is sure, our operandi of snake-poison have been rendered much clearer than they were through these experiments and researches. It is equally apparent that we must not ?is
certainly
no
fault of Dr.
ideas of the effects and modus
rest
satisfied with what has been done.
No
one
would more
Fayrer himself. We hope that he will continue to work at the subject, and that his work will stimulate others, according to their opportunity and ability, to inquire and experiment. We are glad to observe that Dr. Shortt, heartily deprecate
this than Dr.
"
He has
antidotes."
