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Show NEW CURE FOR SNAKE'S BITE. Follows Plan of "Hair of the Dog That Bit You." "Tnko a hair of tho dog that bit you," ts an .old saw thut, as a suggested sug-gested remedy, has led many a man out or tho frying pan Into the fire, and It ennnot certainly bo recommended recommend-ed as a euro sultablo for modern times, when nn antidote Is moro rec-omnicudablo. rec-omnicudablo. Dogs nro not, however, tho only animals ani-mals whoso blto is to be feared; and those peoplo whoso travels havo led them to far lands know thnt poisonous poison-ous snakes nre much more to bo drended. Though by far tho greater proportion propor-tion of thoso persons thus bitten die, there Is a certain number who recover, re-cover, thnnks to prompt measures, and thanks also to the administration of tho exact remedy which any particular par-ticular snake bite requires. It lias lately been reported that, on the principle of the old adage mentioned men-tioned nbovo which thus serves a turn nn nlmost certain euro for snake bite Is the Injection of a small portion of tho bllo of tho roptllo which has attacked nny ono, and which tho snake bolng generally killed on the spot Is naturally at hand. Tho gall bladder Is extracted, Its contents filtered, and tho fluid Injected Inject-ed under the skin. The method sounds somowhnt complicated; but no snakc-hlttou person will complain If by this means ho escapes a rapid death. The experiments made have given tho best results, tNsc recovering from tho poisonous blto of a South American snnke coming oft with nothing noth-ing worso than nn abscess at tho point of penetration of the Borpent's tooth. Chambers' Journnl. |
