The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-05-21
A New Cure-RattleSnake Hearts for
Consumption.

We have been taught from our earliest
/ infancy that nothing whatever that was
made in the beginning. was manufactured
in vain; that even the improvements on
many of the original designs were not to
| be sneeZed at; that everything was useful,
and only required the ingenuity of man to
ascertain its proper use. In taking the
measure of some men whom we have met
in our time. we have found OurSelf becOm-
ing skeptical, really doubling the doctrine,
notwithstanding our kind old father and
our dear mother impressed it on our mind
quite strongly. We have, on such Ocea-
sions, however invariably recOnciled the
matter by thinking that probably mans in
genuity was at fault. thus thinking rather
than. to go back on the teachings of those
whom we first learned TO love.
About rattleSnakes. Who would believe
that these venomOuS creatures, whose
music sends a thrill of horror into the souls
of those who hear his dreadful whiZ, were
useful? Well they should be, for as arti-
cles of an ornamental nature, they are fail
ures. We have often thought about this
matter, and wondered if the original in
ventOr of the snake tribe hadn't made a
mistake of some kind; and if it wasn't a
mistake, whether in a state of diSappOint-
mentand anger, he hadn't planned them to
spitefully trouble some one who had of
Tended him. Then, again, we made up our
mind that snakes were not invented, but
just grOwed; naturally sprung from some
unnatural cause; may be the hair of a
horses tail produced them, or something
of that kind; but even this did not satisfy
us, and we have invariably come around
to the old teachings, and settled down to
the belief that everything that was orig
inally turned out of natures workshop
was good and useful. The use of rattle
snake we never knew until we read the fol-
lowing letter received by our postmaster
Yesterday from q gentleman away up in the
State of Wisconsin. The letter reads as
follows:
"May The 18th 1874.
"Plcas Mr. Postmaster i Wish to Take
the privilege of Writing A Few Lines to
you to let you know About Matters or
What want Har your County AbOuds
with Rattle Snakes wish to get Rattle
Snakes Heart have Known of instances
Where A Rattle Hearts Has Cured The
| Consumption that has cured some in this
| County that is what want it For Don't eX-
pect you to get one But Some Honest Clever
Man in the Country A Farmer Perhaps
would Kill one And take His Heart out
Wash And Dry it wash in Cold water so As
Not to Take The substance out of it Dry it
And send to Me VIII be a A thousand
/ Times Oblige to you the way the indians
use 70 Do They eat them all but the head
/ they let lie for half an hour if they don't
swell they use them if they swell they have
bite themselves. wish to be careful about
/ that because would not want if it was
poisoned they ain'tnO Dangerif they don't
Bite themselves if they do they will imme-
! diately when Killed swell up there is none
in this country thought that Be good
| Plan to get one Wash in cold water Dry it
And put inside of a Piece of paper and Put
| in an envelope and send to me and Oblige."
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