Show 11 DEADLIEST KNOWN 4 BRAZIL I 1 BROUGHT TO AME MED ICAL PURPOSES I 1 I 1 I 1 sailors to sall sail when they learned learne of the presence enca I 1 of the snake now new york april 25 A brazilian lance head viper the deadliest snake known traversed now new yorks streets last night had bad a ride in a subway train and was exhibited to a crowd of ad miring scientists it is tho the first snake of the specie that the city has ever had the honor bonor to entertain tomorrow at tho the donz zoo the snakes deadly poison will be extracted from its fangs for it was for chis purpose that tho the reptile was waa imported from its native jungle on the upper blac beaches es ot of the amazon river the potion of the lancere lanc ohead ad is a val liable drug used in cases of mental disease and insanity sanity jo so go are tho particles employed as medicine that no now new supply has been received in new york for eighteen years there Is still plenty of that supply left in the hands of a prominent chemist in the city but physicians believe that it has deteriorated and hayo demanded a new supple apply the head of the drug house instructed his agent in brazil to secure a specimen of tho the snake after much trouble for tte the natives are very much afraid of the lance head bead one was secure secured dad abid transported down to the coast where v h r e new troubles began tho the portuguese sailors on the ships sailing north from brazilian portz ports gec declined lined to ship as seamen with the snake and while the agent was attempting to secure its T transportation it died months passed before another could be captured t and again the sailors objected after trying every ship making the northward run without success the agent gage gave up toe the attempt and had the snake killed but tle the demand wag stronger ahan ever and a third one was obtained the captain of one of them ships running to new york having agreed to tb bring the snake up in his cabin without letting tie the sailors know that it was on board in this manner tho the snare snake arrived in anew new york a few days ago and after passing the cur customs authorities was wa taken to tho the bronx zoo where it remained until I 1 last night when it was brought down town by badr dr B E W runyon and exhibited at a a meeting of the academy of pathological science dr runyan carried toe the snake in a glass sided box under his arm riding down town and back in a subway train A number of prominent scientists including raymond L Ditt mars curator of the reptile house at the zoo will assist in tho the operation of removing tho the I 1 poison from the snake there will be enough a secured from the one reptile dr runyon says to jill fill the requirements ot the american physicians for fifty years tho the removal ot the poison weakens the snake and it is not believed that it will long survive no th 0 operation 0 |