| Show snake bite antidote for forest service men EST pocket instruments for treating snake bites always possibilities B BEST among the experiences that befall woodsmen woodsman woods men are to be furnished by the united states forest service to its field employees the device when not in use la is apparently a plain wooden cylinder about tho the length of a cigarette and slightly larger lager in diameter and has a screw asp ca on each end when one of the caps Is removed there la Is 48 disclosed a small lancet with which the bitten part may be quickly quick ay slit open the other end of the cylinder Z Is s hollow and contains a supply of 0 perman permanganate banate ot t potash crystals one of the most active antidotes for the poison of snakes tangs fangs the crystals ere are placed in the open wound as soon as possible after the bite ta Is received and become effective by dissolving and entering the blood similar instruments have been used regularly by the held force of the geological survey tor for several years and have in man many y cases been the means of 0 saving life tho the dangers danger to which fort forest workers are subjected of being bitten by poisonous reptiles are forcibly brought out in a recent report to forest service headquarters in Wab washington hington from the shasta national forest in northern california three men sent seat across the path of a recent lire fire to light fight flames fames round found themselves completely complete lir surrounded rounded mi oy dy scores scarce of rattlesnakes snakes that had been driven from their rocky lairs laire by the neat it was necessary tor for the fire fighters to turn snake fighters since they could neither advance nor retreat after a six hour battle all the reptiles reptile were killed and it was wa possible lor for the orest dorest employees to reach and extin gulah the tee fire |
