"Hold the ammonia closer to his nose," said Madame Guix, tugging at a wire that served as boot lace.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
The attempt is vain, for a person in collapse from snakebite cannot be stimulated by any of these remedies, since neither the heart nor the nerve centres respond to them in the slightest degree, as they do in the absence of snake-poison, the only one that has any effect at all in slight cases being ammonia.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller
Three medical men were summoned in haste, injected ammonia into several veins, and finally had to resort to artificial respiration, declaring the case a hopeless one.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller