Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-09-01
JSo. A. THOMSON.
Two Large Rattlesnakes Cut from the
Body Of Live Woman.

A recent number Of the Nashville Banner
contains the following paragraph:
A Mrs. Kennedy, of MurrsysVillo, Tenn, a
woman OF about forty, the wife of an Irish
laborer, living on French Broad street, has
for several gears suffered greatly from i'll
heath. Her symptoms and complaints we're
singular was afflicted with almost constant
pains, that she could seldom or never rest
at night. She stated that she felt something
running up and down in the abdomen, and
that she frequently experienced the creeping
sensation which is called irritability. She
had been in the hospital here, and had been
treated successfully for cancer of the bowels,
worms, contracted hydalids and other COM
plaints, but found no relief AS her un-
easiness and pains continued. so were the at
tempts to relieve her, bat without success.
Not long since DIR. Perriam Giles whose
Office is on the corner of Purchase and Brood
streets, was called into requisition and took
charge of the case.
About week ago she became subject to
incontrollable uueasiness, and begged DR..
Giles to perform an operation for her relief.
This he was reluctant to do, thinking ii
would hsEArd her life, without a sufficiently
certain prospect of bringing relief to her 10
compensate for her hazard. She declared
she was willing TO die; death would be 4
relief; and that she might as we'll die 10
efforts for relief as in any other way. AT last.
Gr. Giles yielded to her opportunities and
having first been sQlemnly exonersied fom
blame by tIt ras
consented 10 b
On Friday
James Davis, Of -
of Sweetwater, he proeeeded 10 ~.
operation. BE ftst made the jneisio. 3 55os'
ten inches long along the medal line OF the
abdomen. He found tumor protecting
largely, about twenty six inches In diameter.
and of irregular form. he opened ftand
found therein two rsttle>snakes, one thirty
si1 inches, and the other twenty two snd 4
half in length. One of the snakes had 6sfs
rattles, and the other four and bntf sn.
They had yellow and black spots on tl.em.
with white bellies. They were quite lively.
and would rattle and strike with verzeance
when disturbed They were killed, and
their skins and rattles are now in the posses
sion Of Col John Stephens, at the corner of
McNab street, of this town. They would not
have been killed, but they we're so vicious
fears were entertained that they would bite
somebody. The tumor being removed, Mrs.
Kennedy wss instantly relieved, and is now
doing we'll The doctors call the snakes cro-
fairs horriBus. Colonel Stephens prizes
their skius and rAttles as great curiosities.
Too much praise cannot be given TO the
eminent medical men for the skill and Gains
ness they manifested throughout the operas
ton. Mrs. Kennedy says'sh swallowed two
small, soft white eggs thst she found several
years ago as she Was walking out in q field
near the Warm Springs, North Carolina.
Having just come over from Ireland, she was
not acquainted with the bird eggs of America,
and swallowed these eggs snpposing them to
be partridge eggs.
: This is how it happened down in South
west Missouri:
he found rope and picked it up,
And with it walked away
1t happened that to t'otber end
A horse was bitched. they say.
They found tree and tied the rope
Unto swinging limb,
1t happened that the other end
Was somehow hitched TO him.