Show snakebite snake bite that kill I 1 A remarkable case of recovery from I 1 s snake nake bite Is recorded in the news brought by the steamship bonny from west africa F T summers who traveled home on the steamer waa was shooting elephant in the bush near when he was bitten by a two horned viper which fastened on his ankle after getting tree free he dispatched tire the viper by blowing its head off and ascertained its measurement to be seven feet long his leg began to swell immediately and he was conveyed to the consulate where dr thomas a treated him twice injecting either iodine or bromide of potassium although the leg at the time of treatment had bad swelled to three times its normal size and everybody including the doctor expected death to take place within nine hours mr summers began to recover recover and rn an eleven days he was well |