15/10/89
In reply to your letter of yesterday, dear Mr Watson,1 I must inform you, that it was Dr. Mueller of Yakandandah,2 who urged the strychnia treatment in snakebite-cases, altho' some experiments in this direction had been made before in India. At the Medical Congress here in Jan. last I supported his views, also in direct communications with him.3 He has rendered purchasable a small injection-apparatus; but it would be best for you to write direct to him at Yakandandah about your requirements.4
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
See R. Watson to M, 14 October 1889.
Vic.
Letters not found. M's comments on this subject at the Intercolonial Medical Congress in January 1889 were not included in the published version of his address (B89.13.16), but a brief supporting statement is included in the report of his address in the Leader (Melbourne), 19 January 1889, p. 5; see also M to E. Regel, 29 May 1889. Augustus Mueller’s use of strychnine was controversial, especially in the medical press; see Campbell (1968).
M's letter is attached to a letter from A. Mueller, Yakandandah, to R. Watson, 19 October 1889.
Please cite as “FVM-89-10-15a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on