The Arizona sentinel., 1889-09-28
BITTEN BY A SCORPION.
A Brooklyn Doctors Horrible Experience
in tn % Wilds of Mexico.

A Brooklyn Doctors Horrible Experience
in ths Wilds of Mexico.
DR.. George Mallet, of Brooklyn City,
who is on his way to the mining camps
of the interior of Mexico. writes from
Yedras the following story of his jour-
ney and his experience with scor-
piOn:
81 started across the country on
mule back with dangerous-looking
guide, whom 1 feared might at any
moment cut my throat while asleep for
the little money had; fortunately, he
did nothing of the kind and turned
out to be very good man. The third
night out had an experience that l
would not repeat for all the wealth OF
Mexico. 1t was just dark. about 1880,
when discovered q light up the side
of mountain and thought it would be
a good time to camp, as we had been
in the saddle almost constantly since
three o'clock that I-Orning. We made
for it and found little shanty inhab-
tied by two horrible looking specimens
of humanity in the most abbreviated OF
costumes.
'The guide told them we wanted to
stop all night, and the female prepared
a cOrn-cake for me. AS they, of course,
had no chairs. sat on q low stool in
front of the fire to eat it. was scarce
ly seated before felt something on my
neck, and putting my hand up, felt an
exceedingly severe sting on my left
index finger. 1t almost made me howl.
| Immediately tied my handkerchief
around it and stopped the circulation.
and then sucked it, and the old woman
parted with chew of tobacco for it.
In about ten minutes the stinging
ceased, and thought it was all over,
when intense vertigo came on with
much vomiting and retching, then a
sense of great weakness and collapse,
accompanied by profuse cold per-
spiration, then sharp tingling began
in the bitten finger, extending over the
hand and up the arm, then the other
arm and hand, then both feet tingled
and stung like an electrical current,
and yet they were completely dead to
all external impressions, and l could
scarcely move them; then my face be-
gan to feel the same way. called for
water, and was terrified to find that l
had lost all sense of taste, and my jaw
was getting stiff, and l could scarcely
articulate at all.
Just imagine my feelings-no one
near but those almost savages and they
understanding not word | said and
the horrible sense of impending death
due to the depression caused by the
poison. l tried to ask if there was a
doctor anywhere near, but could not
even speak English now. and of course
they did not understand me. 1t was
simply horrible, and l thought surely
l was dying, for the dead feeling
seemed to be extending, and l could
scarcely move muscle. With great
effort / made signs for a bottle of
claret that l happened to have in my
bag to use in case of bad water. Most
of this drank, and it braced me up
some so that l made them understand
that l wanted hot water, and it seemed
almost year before they got any.
When it came, although they could not
bear their hands in it, l put both hands
and feet into it without feeling it.
Then l made them rub hard, and they
did all night, and by morning / slept
for about two hours, being perfectly
exhausted. On awakening l felt much
better, my limbs tingled just as though
they were asleep, but l could use them;
by moving about the sensation begar
to return.
''As soon as l could get up got
into the saddle again, hoping to reach
some civilization in case / should get
worse. The journey was just half
over. so 1 pushed on for Yedras and
soon found that the exercise was of
benefit, the tingling ceased, and by
that night l could taste the food. /
ate the next morning and had no signs
of the previous nights experience, ex-
cept a loss of sensibility in my left
arm and hand and feeling of great
weakness. Now, five days after, am
entirely we'll, except that l have no
feeling at all in my left index finger
and half of back of forearm up to the
elbow. | was told here that it was a
scorpion that bit me and that was
lucky in getting out of it so easily. 1
am all right now and apprehend no
further trouble IN. Y. World.