The first antivenom for snakes ( called an anti-ophidic serum ) was developed by Albert Calmette against the Indian Cobra ( Naja naja ) .
Albert Calmette is a French scientist of the Pasteur Institute working at its Indochine branch in 1895 .
The first antivenom for snakes ( called an anti-ophidic serum ) was developed by Albert Calmette , a French scientist of the Pasteur Institute working at its Indochine branch in 1895 , against the Indian Cobra ( Naja naja ) .