Open AccessOn the physiological action of the poison of the Hydrophidæ
Author(s) -
Leonard Rogers
Publication year - 1903
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1902.0131
Subject(s) - bengal , bay , bathing , action (physics) , fishery , toxicology , medicine , medical emergency , traditional medicine , geography , biology , pathology , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics
It has long been known that the great group of the Hydrophidæ, or Sea-snakes, are poisonous, and cases of death produced by their bites have been recorded, for example, that in Sir Joseph Fayrer’s work on the Poisonous Snakes of India, of the ship’s captain bitten while bathing in the Bay of Bengal, with a fatal result.