Show I EXPERTS ANTIDOTE ANTIDOTES I S FAILED TO In WOR Snake Trainer Owner of I Dies From prom Pun Puncture ture in Wrist st BITTEN BY A A KRAIT KHAI I Estimate Estimated That The Their r Bites Caus Cau Cause Fully lea Deaths Deaths' is Annu Annually lly In I li lidia SaId Sald dia Said Lots of t them in to Be of Them hem I That Count Country Cal Calcutta The India The The death iti occurred here recently of a man m man for r i whom i it is it 3 claimed that he he wa without equal eq ai i lI skill in handling g sn snakes ke This wa Professor Fox an A Australian farmer armer who mime came to o II India di alitt a little e tin time to prove the effic efficiency Vh what t I h he her claimed claim im H to th be bea a pe f I sr sir sure j a r to the virus o of a snake a i t t had had been successful ul in In mall all aU hi h his experiments eF ri With animals in th the Ca Cs Cal q p-q and nd had just treated a a goa go goat goat- wh which 1 h had been heen bi bitten ten a and d was w as a leair leai ea fing r ing on a a b box x contain containing ng poisonous snakes I k s w when a krait o one e of 1 he moc mos mo most venomous nom ous o c of In Indian ian snakes iia escape aped and punctured Foxs Fox's Foxs wrist t in fic five pl places ces S Fox who had of ten submitted to 1 t sn snake ke bite in order r er t to show l w the eff efi em cacy of hia at was fk i in ri no ilo wa perturbed in and treated four r of of the bite bites at on once once e. e L Later t r in hi the ay symptom oms so ng developed develop nd d the the tin tiny fifth puncture ure was dis discovered bJ ered It wathen wa wathen was then too late as the antidote only ad adif acts act if applied at onCe on once e and and Fox F ox died th the same same evening j iJ Fox was cs wa well weW known in His s s 's snake a f farm ri was wai afi few w m miles s ou outside out out- side df Of Sydney where wh 4 te fe he kept VE five hundred snakes sm kes most of which he e had caught in th the brush His Hi's bus busi ness fies s 's was to to extract the p fro the snakes and sell it to and for this this' purpose se he farmed snake snakes lef firm farm pigs as other peo people rm and nd in moved oved about abo bouth his s stock as tearless fearless tearlessly fearlessly earles ly as if they w were r rabbit rabbits On J his is snake sn-ake hunts he tracked hi his pre prey with th the c cunning ing and pat patience enc c of o J I l Ha idled Hat dl d The Them Without out Gloves i a cat and and could tsee see e a sn snake e I. I trai t 1 was absolutely invisible to the ry e eye t t f Haying Having found a a snake snake- probably ep a meal h he had to get it ita ii I a alive ive and un uninjured into his bag H He rarely tried to lift u up upi f a coiled coile snake Ii Il was was as a a. most difficult thing to o do anc am and he always preferred to tp P. P cat catch the rep rep reptile ti tile LilO e when stretched t to tits rits' its full ful length it was was gliding away from him He then ther approached approached f from om b behind c caught il 11 t firmly by th this t tail il iI and as as it t turned it its head to strike he would catch it bj br the th n neck k also and n place p ace it tip itin in Jh the bagA bag bagA A figh fighting ng snake for snake for in inia instance cC g a tiger iger sn snake h be he he pr preferred to o tire ire out before re attempting to handle anc am and would feint and dodge for an an n l hour hUr r oc or end nd nd as t the le snake with ith hE head id s rais raised d d at him striking dI g vicious viciously iy ly YS this this way way and that thai Hi He H t leggings giov gloves s and always always' lw worked thong mong fh his his s' s snakes na es with v vt t his hf s shirtsleeve rOl rolled ed up above hI his elbows He e e. e had been bitten bilten py oyer i one ohe one hu hun hundred dr dred d' d tim times s and used the antidote of his hii wn discovery In In India the he country country of of fatal snake snakebite s a e bite ite there are about twenty ty thousand deaths annually but in Australia the the snakes are arC almost as aven ven- ven en mOl it it t is doubtful if there are arC r a dozen Lozen The reasons probably hem li he in J- J the fact act that Australians wear thick boots and leggings and every ev ry Australian alian hf has S been taught taught from babyhood up W w at ft to do in case case as of snake snake bite This his at t th the expense of of the the government ent wl which placard all s schools school and railway st stations With oris-With i with snake bite it precautions re auti Any ny small child bitten by a a. snake e knows knows that he must instantly tie ie tight ligatures above and below the the wound and ind nd then slash fIle i he e part freely fr ly to lethe let the he flow of blood carry away the yenO Many dany a alad ad willingly sacrifices sacrifices a i finger finger- fingertip tip rather than ilan run the risk risk ot ol lying dying of snake bite bite and will ins instantly hop chop off the tip lip himself and then hurry off ff for tr treatment S |