The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-10
BITES THAT DO NOT KILL.
None Are Necessarily Fatal-The Rat
tlesnake is the Worst of All.

tNone Are Necessarily Fatal-The Rat
tlesnake is the Worst Of All.
From, the Neto York Mail and Erpress.
ssYes men have died, and worms have
eaten them, but not from bites, common
EIy. ~ said Herman Reich.
If anybody ought to know about bites he
ought, as heir to the strange business his
father built up. Dealer in all strange ami
mate things save insects, he has been since
childhood familiar with most of the mar
Vicious creatures that most of US only know
as denizens of menageries. He and his men
know pretty well what kind of teeth most
of these things have, and theoretically know
how to keep clear of them. Practically
i,bav get nipped eagerly and frequently.
0Of course" he said further, that has
n, y a limited application. There are
ME 1ty of deaths from the bites of poison
6us reptiles and insects, but you were ask
ing bout hydrophobia. Of course there is
such disease. think even the most in
yeterate lover of dogs will admit that now,
though there were formerly plenty of peo-
Me who disbelieved in the reality of the dis
ease A good many people have what Dr.
Hammond calls spurious hydrophobia, after
being bitten, but some few do really have
hvdrophobia. They die, too. None OF
them ever get well, SO far as know"
docs it ever come from the bite of a
cat, or any other beast than dogw
'Never heard of it from any bite but a
dogs. or that of some member .of the dog
family. such as wolf. Our hunters who
are kept busy catching all sorts of wild
animals in all sorts of countries have no
fear of a bite as a bite. Of course if a
lion or a tiger bites your head off you miss
it: but that is only because the laceration is
so severe. A wound from wild beasts
tooth is no worse than wound from any
other weapon. The result depends on
whether the tooth is clean, or how severe
the wound is, and on the physical condition
of the man.
''Our hunters, naturally enough are
greatly exposed to bites. They have to cap
ture live animals whenever it it is possible,
and many of the animals object. But in
case of a bite they treat it simply as a
laceratiOn They have some IMMINENT or
salve that they use, | really don't know
what it is, and then they use the banks and
leaves that the natives use.
'Of course, if mans blood is in bad
condition when he is bitten, or if any dirt
or decayed matter goes into the laceration,
the patient is likely to suffer, but from the
bite as bite there is nothing to fear, unless
it is from some poisonous creature or from
rabid animal. That is, of course, q gen
eral statement. Circumstances may make
an exception, but the rule is true.
''The bite that William Greve got from
the sea hon, Ben Butler, few days ago, is
apparently an exception. He is suffering a
good deal from it, but that is really be-
cause the brute's teeth were dirty and the
mans blood was not in the best condition.
Moreover, it was tolerably severe wound
that he got. The sea lion is wicked bitter
when he is angry.
There was q man. whose name | have
forgotten, who was bitten by an ant-eater
in museum on Coney Island two or three
years ago, and he died of blood poisoning
which resulted but some of our men here
have been bitten several times by ant-eaters
without any serious results
''What other beasts have bitten you, or
your men,"
"Well. haven't been bitten. I keep out
of the way of bites. Oh! monkey bites. |
don't count those. They don't amount to
anything, though of course they are the
same as the Others, come to think about it.
But we don't think much of them.
what beasts have bitten any of us!
Let's see There's Henry Kimm. He got
pretty bad bite from a leopard some time
ago. All the cat family will bite if they
get a chance. Monkeys will bite almost al
ways. Agoutis bile if they get angry, and
ant-eatefs, too. In fact, it is safe TO as
sumo that almost any strange animal will
bite you If he has a chance. and most of
them have bitten our men at one time or
other
when we had the Aquarium on Coney
Island our engineer, Beaman, had fight
with an Irishman down there, and the
Irishman bit him. He suffered all sum-
lner from it. No, | don't know that an
1r.Shmans bite is worse than any other
mansn
What is the worst bite you know OFF,
IA ratrlesnake's,n was the exceedingly
prompt answer. "None of our men here
ever got bitten by rattlesnake, though"
as that sure DEATH"
"Oh, no; but it's apt to be fatal There
is man named Moves in Savannah who
sends us good many snakes, and who has
been bitten frequently by rattlesnakes, and
he doesn't seem to mind it much"
What remedy does he user
IAN the whisky he can drink. think he
rather enjoys getting bitten"
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