The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-22
SNAKE = BITE CURES.
REMEDIES FOR SERPENT POISONING.
The Things Relied On to Seutraiis. the
Most Violent OF Poison. - Casss
where whisky aud Tobac-
co Have Uses.

lCuriosities Of Snake Life
ITO conceive OF an antidote to snake !
poison In the true sense of tho term" Sir |
Joseph Fayrer explains, Zone must mag
inc substance so subtle AS to follow,
overtake and neutralize the venom in the
blood one that shall have the power Of
counteracting and neutralizing the deadly
influence it has eXerted on the vital forces.
Such substance has still to be found, and
our present 'IS,ericnce of the action OF
drugs does not cad to hope III anticipation
thai we shall find it,"
With regard To the many drugs used in
various countries for the cure of snake.
bite 1T is curious to note that, as rule,
they are procured from the most deadly
plants. AS like cures like, SO poison cures
poison. Pennyroyal, says Charus, was
held to the nose of a viper, which by turn
ing and wriggling labored hard to avoid
it, AMI in half an hour's time was killed
by it. This was in Julv. at which season
these creatures are computed to be in the
greatest vgor OF their poison
Ano, her drug which is poison to ven
omous snake is tobacco, within the reach
OF most persons. This, among native
We have heard of its efficacy ever since
the " eed was known to Europeans. Nari-
Gus species Of tobacco and its allies are
indigenous to most tropical countries, and
probably were i'll use for both man and
snake bites long before civilized nations
took comfort in smoking. Man carries
more poison IN his mouth than snake,
said Al old Virginian writer. abiding to
nj, n. Ha n,Is rIAtt ln sal "a.
more quickly than it can him. Nicholson
states that it also rapidly affects II COBRA
aud he recommends it, should you wish to
destroy the snake uninjured. "iou have"
he says, "but to blow into its mouth
drop or two Of the oil from dirty pipe"
Two young men chopping wood together
In Virginia espied rsttl, SNAKE. With
forked stick one OF them held its head
close to the ground, keeping its body con
/ strained with his loot while his conrade
took from his own moth u quld of tobacco,
| lich he forced into that oil the snake
/ The reptile WAS then released, and had not
| crawlel Il couple OF yards before it was
! cnmvulSed, swelling and dying within "a
/ short time
Stlychniue appears to have similar
effect to tobacco on snakes. Fayrer found
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