Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-03-23 | Page 7 | Novel Cure for Snake Bite

NOVEL CURE FOR SNAKE BITE Mosquitoes Save a JQIans Life by Drawing Out a Battlers Poison Talkln about rattlesnakes said an Erie railroad brakeman did you ever hear how the mosquitoes saved a mans life up near Gulf Summit in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania last summer Well while getting out railroad tics over back of the Summit Abe More house wag bitten in the leg by a rattlesnake rattle-snake A doctor was at once sent for and the IPIJ was bandagqd tightly above the wound It was expected that Morc house would die before the doctor could come up the pllte on hla wheel but ho didnt Just aa soon as the leg was bared lo put on the bandage it was attacked at-tacked by a swarm of mosquitoes and when the doctor arrived he found the man as well ns ever and lively as a cricket but the ground was covered with dead and dying mosquitoes They had sucked the poison from Morehouses wound and saved his life This was hard on the mosquitoes but f presume Morehouscs life was worth saving Chicago Inter Ocean