Salt Lake Herald | 1907-11-24 | Page 31 | Fatal Rattlesnake Bites

FATAL RATTLESNAKE BITES New York Sun SunI I lived in a real al rattlesnake country a score of years year and nd that is where no intelligent underestimates the deadliness of the venom I knew of ot many fatal cases of ot snake bite in those years year ranging from the death in fifteen minutes of a man who was bitten in a vein while working in a hay hayfield hayfield field feld to that of a man who lived two days after he had been bitten by a baby rattler ratter less les than a foot long with wih only a button buton This man laughed at atthe atthe atthe the infantile bite bie and took no precautions precautions tons against it I until too late When his death throes began on the second day he ne cursed and raved because so insignificant life lite a reptile could end his A boy was stung twice by a rattle rattlesnake ratte rattlesnake snake for Cor he fought it I in a canyon near San Diego and died on the spot A pitiful case was wa that of a young lady artist artst who lived In Los Ls Angeles In the summer of 1903 she went to the Sierra Siera Madro mountains and while rambling in ir a jumped down canyon canon a bank onto a rattlesnake She was bit bitten bitten bitten ten and died before the girl with her who hurried for help could return Not all al rattlesnake bites bies are arc fatal however even in regions which pro produce produce produce duce the most dangerous varieties of the reptile It I depends on the location of the wound the te amount of poison in injected injected the remedies applied and the speed of the application If I the wound is immediately slashed and sucked a tourniquet quickly arranged penman perman permanganate pen an of potash applied or ammonia used both outwardly and inwardly there is hope but no certainty that the victim recover Constant may ap application of cold water is advocated by some people Everybody too who has ha lived in the southwest knows that rattlesnakes will wi s strike without giving any warning They Tey are apt to do this In August Augst when partially blind from rom shedding their skins skirts and at other times when suddenly disturbed