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Show NCW CUF1E FOR SNAKE'S BITE. Follows Plan of "Hair of the Dog That Bit You." "Take il Lair of tho dog (but hit jou," Is nn old saw Hint, ns u suggested sug-gested remedy, has led tunny ti mnn out or the rrjlng pan Into the lire, and It enunot certainly bo re omtuend ed ns u cure suitable for modern limes, when on antidote Is more roc-ommeiidnble. roc-ommeiidnble. Dogs are not, however, the only mil-mnls mil-mnls whoso bite Is to bo feared; nnd those people whoso travels hnvo led them lo fur hinds know-Hint poisonous poison-ous snakes nro much moio lo be dreaded. Though bj fur Hie greater jirojior-Hon jirojior-Hon or those persons thus bitten die, there Is a certain number who recover, re-cover, thanks to prompt measures, nud Ihiitiks nlso lo Hie ndmlnlstriitlou or Hie exact remedy which unj particular par-ticular siiukit Idle requires. II has lately been rexiried thnt, on tho prlnelpl" or Hie old ail-ige mentioned men-tioned nliove wb'ih thus serves n turn uti almost uriiiln ciiiii for snake Idle Is ll InJidlon of n small portion or (he Idle of the reptile whleh bus nitmhiil nnj one, and whlih the sunke being geneially killed on Hie spot Is niiiiiriillj at hand The gull bladder Is extruded, Its foments llliered. mid the fluid Inject-ed Inject-ed under the skin Tho method sounds soinewhnt roinpllouteil. hut no snal.e-bltieu person will (iimplalu I If by this menus he escapes u rapid death, Te experiments made have given tlio best results, those recovering from tho poisonous bile of a South Amerlcun snnko lomlug off with nolh-lug nolh-lug worse than mi nbscess nt the point of Mnetrullon of the serpent's tooth. Chambers' Journal. |