A Federal Food and Drug Administration Page on Treating Venomous Snake Bites.
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Pharmacokinetics of Snake Bites was created by Susan Stagg to be used as an Open-Ended Problem (OEP) by Professor H. Scott Fogler at the University of Michigan. It was given as an OEP to the undergraduate kinetics class during Winter Semester 1994. This problem was also featured in Open-ended Problems in Chemical Reaction Engineering, a set of problems that accompanied the 2nd edition of Professor Fogler's text, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering.
The cobra problem was converted into a web document for the Chemcial Reaction Engineering Web Site and CD-ROM by Gavin Sy and Dieter Andrew Schweiss, who wish to thank Susan Stagg for all of her hard work in creating the cobra problem in the first place.
Gavin created the frames set, entered all of the original text from Susan Stagg's problem, and converted amateur video into the cobra movies.
Dieter rewrote the background information so that it begins from a "layperson's" point of view, but allows advanced readers to go into more detail (i.e., refers them to the original text for the problem), solved a base case for the open-ended problem presented in this document, expanded on the base case with a few examples, presented the whole solution with Polymath screenshots, got bit by a cobra to prove that it only takes 30 minutes for respiratory paralysis to occur (just kidding), and generally wrapped up the loose ends.
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Fogler, H. Scott. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. 3rd Ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1998.
Gill, Paul G. Pocket Guide to Wilderness Medicine & First-Aid. Ragged Mountain Press [McGraw-Hill], Camden, Maine, 1997.
Greene, Harry W. Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
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Here are a few links to cobra-related sites that you might try. (NOTE: CD-ROM users will need to be connected to the internet for these links to work correctly.)
A National Geographic site on King Cobras.
A Federal Food and Drug Administration Page on Treating Venomous Snake Bites.