Toxicology amd Pharamacology of Venoms form Poisonous Snakes

The purpose of this monograph was, therefore, to bring together as many values of lethality of snake venoms as possible, intabular form. In this way the relative toxicities of these venoms could be shownn factually; too many myths have already pervadedthe nonscientific literature concerning the toxicities of snake venoms. Together with the tabulated amounts of venom obtainablefrom poisonous snakes, the values (derived from mice), with certain assumptions, have been combined to calculate an index