Venoms - Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-Therapeutics #226294

At this period our knowledge of the physiological action of venoms was extremely limited. A few of their properties alone had been brought to light by the works of Weir Mitchell and Reichard in America, of Wall and Armstrong in India and-england, of A. Gautier and Kaufmann in France, and especially by Sir Joseph Fayrer's splendidly illustrated volume The Thanatophidia of pub lished in London in 1872.