RT Journal
A1 Carhart JD
T1 SNake bites—a correction.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD October 26
VO XIII
IS 17
SP 612
OP 613
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401130034010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401130034010
AB To the Editor: 
    —In the issue of The Journal for September 28th I notice the following item, clipped from The Southern Practitioner, which is calculated to make a very false impression, at least in the minds of your northern readers, and to do our section of the State of Texas great injustice:Dr. L. G. Lincecum, of Lampasas, Texas, reports that he has treated more than one hundred cases of bites inflicted by poisonous reptiles, and that he has never seen a case result fatally that was treated by the hypodermic administration of permanganate of potassium and the administration of chloroform locally and by means of inhalation. He gives the permanganate in 1 and 2 grain doses.I have now practiced medicine in Texas eight years, part of the time in the northwest portion of the State known as the Panhandle, and the last five and one-half years in Lampasas.