Title Australian animal toxins : the creatures, their toxins and care of the poisoned patient / Struan K. Sutherland, James Tibballs

Edition Second edition Published South Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description xxiii, 856 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm regular print Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Symbols and abbbreviations -- References -- 1. Historical background -- 2. The potency and action of Australian venoms and toxins -- 3. First aid for bites and stings -- 4. The biology of Australian snakes -- 5. Identification of snakes and their venom -- 6. Genus Notechis, Tiger Snakes -- 7. Genus Pseudonaja, Brown Snakes -- 8. Genus Austrelaps, the Copperheads -- 9. Genus Pseudechis, Black Snakes -- 10. Genus Acanthophis, Death Adders -- 11. Genus Oxyuranus, the Taipan and the Small-scaled or Fierce Snake -- 12. Tropidechis carinatus, the Rough-scaled or Clarence River Snake -- 13. Cryptophis nigrescens, the Small-eyed Snake -- 14. Genus Hoplocephalus -- 15. Snakes of uncertain or lesser medical importance -- 16. Family Hydrophiidae, Sea Snakes -- 17. Treatment of snake bite in Australia -- 18. Spiders -- 19. Latrodectus hasselti, the Red-back or Jockey Spider -- 20. The genera Atrax and Hadronyche, the Funnel-web Spiders -- 21. Ticks -- 22. Venomous arthropods of medical importance, other than spiders and ticks -- 23. Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the Platypus -- 24. Class Cephalopodar, Octopuses -- 25. Chironex fleckeri, the Box Jellyfish -- 26. Other jellyfish of medical importance -- 27. Venomous Cone Shells -- 28. Genus Synanceia, Stonefish -- 29. Venomous fish other than Stonefish -- 30. Miscellaneous venomous creatures (mainly marine) -- 31. Marine animals poisonous to eat -- Appendix -- Addendum -- References -- Index Summary This second edition of "Australian Animal Toxins" provides a comprehensive review of every venomous and poisonous creature in Australia that poses a threat to man or beast. Both terrestrial and marine creatures are discussed Notes Includes bibliographical references and index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [778]-829) and index Subject Antivenins. Toxicology. Venom -- Physiological effect. Poisonous animals -- Australia. Venom. Animals, Poisonous. Antivenins. Bites and Stings. First Aid. Fishes, Poisonous. Marine Toxins. Poisoning. Therapeutics. Venoms. Animals, Poisonous. Bites and Stings -- therapy. Poisoning -- epidemiology. Poisoning -- therapy. Venoms. Animals, Poisonous. Venoms. SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Australia -- epidemiology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315Q000453 Author Tibballs, James. LC no. 2001272264 ISBN 019550643X

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