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Serpent-Venom Reaction

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents; recontly employed in judicial proceedings in some European countries and in Japan.