| Show ANTIDOTE FAILED TO WORK snake trainer owner of Bes dies from puncture in wrist krisl BITTEN BY A KRAIT estimated thai their thear ates gause cane futty fully deaths death annually in in din said bald to bo be lota late of them la that country calcutta aadla the death here recently of a man tor for abom it Is claimed that he be was without equal in his skill la in handling snakes this was professor fax an Aus australian snake farmer who cam to india a ottlo time ago to prove t the efficiency ot of W what hat he claimed to be a perfectly sure antidote to the ahus vh ug of a snake rox pox had been successful to ta cal all his experiments with animals in the calcutta zoo and had just treated a a goat which haa W been bitten and was leans ing on a box containing PoiS poisonous snakes when a kaalt one of the most venomous ot of indian snakes escaped and punctured faas wrist in five places poi fox who had bad often submitted to snake alta la in order to show the efficacy of hta his antidote was in no way perturbed and treated four of the bites at once later in the day symptoms ot of poisoning developed and the tiny fifth h puncture was discovered it was then too we late as aa the antidote only acts acta if I 1 applied at once and fox died the same 60 vox fax was waa well known in australia hla his ann farm was a few miles out elda aide ot of sydney where he be kept over five hundred snakes most of which bi he had bad caught in tho the brush his business waa to e extract tract tho the poison from the snakes and sell it ft to the chemists and tor for this purpose he be farmed snakes as other people fa farm pigs pig or poultry and moved about his stock is as fearlessly as aa it if they were ware rabbits on his hunts bunts he tracked his hii prey with tho cunning and patience of I 1 t handled them without clovea a B cat and could see a ar snakes takes trail where it wad was absolutelY invisible to the 0 o having found a probably asleep after a meal he ha had to get it auve alive and d uninsured lared into his bog bag lie ho rarely tried to lift up a colled coiled snake it was a most difficult thing to do and he always preferred to catch the reptile when stretched to its NU full length it was gliding away from win him ile ho then approached from behind caught it firmly by the tall tail and as aa It turned its head bead to strike he would catch caich it by the kalso and place it in tho the bag A fighting snake tor for instance a tiger snake he preferred to tire out before aa attempting emptIng to handle and would tent feint and dodge tor for an hour on end as the snake with head bead slightly raised darted at M him striking i viciously this way and that ho he disdained disdain ed leggings or gloves and always worked among his snakes with his rolled up above hla his elbows he ha had been bitten over one hundred times and used the antidote of his own discovery jn in india the country of fatal ana snake ke bite there are about twenty thousand deaths annually but in australia wh where ore the snakes are almost as venomous amous it Is doubtful it if there are a dozen the reasons probably lie in the tact art that austra australians itans wear thick boohr and leggings and every australian has been taught fro from babyhood up what to do la in case of snake bite this ati it the expense ot ot the government which placards all schools and railway stations wit with h snake bite prem precautions ution s any small child bitten by a snake knows that ho he must instantly tte tight ligatures above and below the wound and then slash the part freely to let tho the flow ot of blood carry tway away the venom many a lad willingly sacrifices 6 n finger up tip rattier tian acan run the ask risk of 1 dying tit of elake bits and d will instantly chop af pf himself and then hurry off for treatment |
