Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-28
Vomiting Up a Snake.

The heroine of this remarkable occur
renee is Mrs. Sarah Linderner, who lives
on Reserve street, Vancouver. She came
there in September last from Camp
Bidwell, ModOc County, CAL, where
she had previously resided with her
husband on ranch She relates the
story substantially as follows Zone
day in the month of March, year ago,
she had been washing during the day, and
when night came was thirsty. Not hav.
ing any water in the house she took cup
and repaired to a spring, or hole in the
ground, where her husband had sunk a
barrel, near small creek The dusk of
evening had faded into darkness, render
ing il impossible to see what might be in
the cup when she drank. She drank a
deep draught from the cup and felt some
thing wriggling down erthrOat, seeming
ly about the size OF hOrsehair and two
or three inches long. She attempted to
raise 1t up, but could not, and thinking it
would, if an animal, be unable to live in
her stomach, for the time being dismissed
the subject from her mind. Three or four
months thereafter she began to manifest
symptoms similar TO aggravated dyspep-
sia, terrible burnings and pressure in the
stomach, and constant cravings for food
and yet never satisfied, like one afflicted
with tapeworm. She was treated from
time to time for her troubles, but for long
time would not think that she had snake
In her stomach She came TO Vancouver
with her husband last fall, in the mean
time her troubles increasing, and for the
past three months assuming the most
frlghtful symptoms. She could feel the
animal moving about in her stomach,
clearly maniiesting its presence by un
mlstaRable evidences, such AS biting her
stomach severely, and rendering her al.
most beside herself with pain and horror.
The animal would seize hold of the lin
ing Of her stomach and bite until some
warm food or drink was administered TO
the patient, when it would subside and be
quiet. The poor woman was kept almost
constantly eating and dosing for the
benefit of his snakeship, and il NAV easily
be imagined that her life was one round
of unmitigated horror. Despairing of a
cure, she wrote TO a California physician.
who sent her prescription, which was
simply to starve herself and drink nothing
but brandy. Friday morning of last week
(March ~, after having suffered fearfulIy
the day previous, she began the new
regimen. Building up a hot fire. she
dosed heavily with the liquor, and re-
clined on the iioOr, with her face close 10
the fire. Along in the forenoon she be-
came deadly sick at tie stomach and
vOmited Violently. After several severe
retchings she felt the snake coming up.
Its head was so near her mouth as 10 i'm.
pede her breathing, when, rising to her
feet in her agony, and leaning her head
against the mantelpiece, directly over the
lire, shos thIus. her fingers down her
throat, stretching il to its widest tension,
and the snake glided from her mouth and
fell into the hot Goals of fire below, and
was burned up. At this moment there
was no one present but girl twelve years
old, and she aid not dare to take the ami.
NAL from The fire, and the woman tainted
away. tbs snake is described as closely
resembling common garter snake, and
was about sixteen inches in length. II