Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-08
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE SATURDAY
snake STORIES.
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suake blstS," sald Pot. Worth, of the
North side Nu-euEl, III answer to cues
ton 81 4 reporter Tor the Tribune. ST was
bltie., uy :. sl.4ks," continued tbs collector
OF cafiusit,rs, ard asd most remarkable
thnmb yoll . %, end i had o &c an putate d
t. save ms li,,'' AID be showed very
short stump Of teumo GA the LETT hand.
~H1w d,d ii happyh?"
~ was ieeolng The snakes with raw beef
as I had 30 birds or mice. There were
slx5y Of t1em in the'case, from two to SIX
feet long. haa 40 stick il my hand--an
unusuai oyersis HI With Ine-and lad to
push back any that tried to get
out Nth my hs nj. Suddenly
three of them mace an attempt 10 escape
in as many different directions. Thinking
to friqhten them back / STAN ped, shoated
and struck at them with my hand. Two
dropped back, but one of them stood bis
ground and raised his hsad toward me-
he was a rattlesnake. l made a
quick pass at him, but he
vas quicker and buried his fangs in my
th1uio. I shook him back in the case,
closed the lid, and, sucking my injured
finger. hurried for the door and sent a
policeman after an ambulance and a
friend for whisky. I drank quart of
whisky and was unconscious in twenty
minutes. The doctors took it for case of
alcoholism and pumped the whisky out Of
me, Or woald lever have lost my thumb.
They had never hal rationale bite to
deal with and didn't know what to do, but
the next time I got rattiesneke poison In
me treated it myself"
Shave you been bitten since?"
"No, but ran fang that one Of them
had shed, into my other thumb few
months ago. That was the first time knew
of ra:tlesnakes shedding their poison
fangs. was cleaning out the case and
something scratched my thumb through
the sponge. I took it for silver at first,
but when I came to look at it found it
was fang. I knew I was poisoned
again !" 2zis'
"What did you DO them"
"Why, used rattlesneke violet, of
which I made an infusion, and it quickly
cured me. I was il the ospital three
months the first time, and lost my thumb.
The other is as good as ever, you see"
"Do you know of any other cases?" was
asked.
"Yes. Mr.. Wallack, ep actor, was bitten
Oh the leg by a rattiesnake ia this state
years ago. He buried the leg in the earth
for twenty hours, and the gravity of
the earth drew the poison and cured him,
but every year within a day or two, or ex-
actly upon the day on which he was bitten,
his leg turns spotted like the snake. A
farmer in Tennessee, another acquaint-
ance of mine, was bitten by one of
these cotton mouth moccasins. The latter
are nasty snakes, they throw out froth,
and whenever this froth touches the skin
it poisons. He made tea of rattlesnake
root, imbibed freely of whisky, and was
cured, but every year the foot that was
often turns the same color as the cotton
mouth moceasin."
Il know of another man who lives in
the snake regions of New York state who
Was bitt en- by rettlesnake. he made a
tea of rattlesnake-vlolet, applied salve
made of lion root, and cured himself. He
was bitten on the ankle, and every year,
same as the others, his leg becomes spot
ted like the snake. Another man
whom 1 know was bitten on the
tains, three miles away from any house.
He made the best time he could TO the
nearest farm, but the limb was fRightfuliy
swollen by that time. The woman there
seemed to be considerably versed in rat
tlesnake bites. She ran out in the yard
caught chicken, split it in two and ap
piled it to the wound. 1t absorbed the
poison very fast, turning green. The1
she threw it away and applied another il
the same manner until she had used
twenty -one chickens and effected a com.
pIete cure. This mans leg, too, get.
spotted yearly"
SIS this chicken cure common?"
"Yes, but generally a much smalle
number 10 sufficient. The case I spoke O.
was bsd one"
"Are there any other cures?"
Eyes. A maidstone is a good thing.
| have one in my collection. 1t cures rattle
| snake and mad-dog bites, and is porou.
like pumice-stone. When you want to U.s.
it dip it in milk or tepid water to open thu
pores. Then you scarify the wound to max
it bleed and apply the stone. It sticks lik
| leech for perhaps an hour, absorb
ing the poison till every pore is full, an
thsn drops OF. You clean If by dippin;
it in the milk again, and keep on applying
it until the poison is under control, bat il
case OF a mad dog bite it must be apple
within the first five days, before tn
spasms set in, because after that the bloc
is so vitisted that the stone can't absorl
the poison quick enough to save life
These madstones are not believed in u
here, because people don't know anythin
about them. Down south, however, wher
they are known they are greatly used.'