Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-24

About a Snake.
from the Wayne County Herald.

Grrom the Wayne County Herad.l
I am happy to state more explicitly the
particulars of my case since it has revealed
itself. In the fall of 1858 was tending !
mill for Atkinson, Taft e. Co., in Hawley,
Wayne county, Pa, and in the month OF
December commenced feeling cold and
had an unpleasant feeling in the right side
of my stomach, and when in bed, if 1 lay
ed on my right side I would feel such a
beating and humping through my entire
system that I would often times get up on
account Of 1t. I then called upon Doctor
John r. Thomas, who was my first phys
ician, and having bad cough at the time,
he recommended to me Ayers Cherry Pee
toral. took some Of it and my sufferings
grew worse. Then I consulted Doctors
Stephens and Bonneville of Hawley; but
they gave me no relief as to what the COM
plant might be. I then went to Allen
town, Pcnn'a., and consulted two Doctors,
Charles Martin and Rocmich, and they
pronounced it Liver complaint. l took
some medicine, but my pains we're the
same as in the fall of 1858. / then quit
medicine and made up my mind that it
, was Consumption; and in August last L
: returned from the South again to Wayne
county, and resumed tue milling business
S and my feelings were about the same in
q doors as when outdoors.
c The last week in April, a friend recon-
r mcnded to me hemlock gum in liquor,
e took it three times day for five days, and
s on the morning of the first day of May
= was very thirsty for milk, which l Away
: refused to drink but 1 went to wher
Is they we're milking cows and drank Of it al
= l could, and in the afternoon l felt yer.
r bad and told Mr.. Phillips, a young ma
at the mill, that I felt like sitting by tn
ie warm stove went to my boarding hous
y and told Mr.. Wm Bortreo end Harrie
a. Lesher, that I felt something choking an
n crawling in my throat and stomach. In
's' mediately afterwards I felt it coming u
o. my throat. strained with my breat
s. outward, then reached with my fingers an
ed pulled up reptile, that is pronounced
re live snake, ten inches in length, which h
d; been seen by hundreds of persons up
he this time. | should call it a water snak
;, but there are different opnins in rcgaI
y, to what kind of snake it may be, VIII
-, it first came from the stomach-its col
". i was whitish, but it has now changed to
light brown, with black spots, and is st
- -, living in n glass and feeds on milk.
~ Since it has left my stomach have no
W., W. of those feelings which l have describ
~. Nv and suffered for seventeen months. At
~. m time was my usual weight reduced but fo
-: . teen pounds most of my time / was a
p, p. to do business, except in February Q
March 1859 My mind was effected
| had a distress on the brain. The w
before the snake came from my stoma
,er- I talked with the Rev. William Bortr
; in an old and much esteemed citizen of Wa,
en-. CO. He had witnessed my troubles for
uc, seven months, and thought them of 4
ten qular nature until the snake came out
or my throat. 1 told him before, that, sho
out I die sudden, wished to have postm
yels tenn examination made, thinking it mi
are be a benefit to the human family, and
ood isfactory to my relatives and friends.
TO MsLToN J. GERuARI
less Sterling, May 5th, 1860.