The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-08-04
Snake Poison and Human Poison

Snake Poison and Human Poison.
The bite of the rattlesnake Is al
most always fatal to- man. Yct this
snake is never affected 10y the injec.
tiUb Of its own poison into its own
blood, neither when enfaged IL bites
itself nor when its venom is injected
by artificial means TO test the qies-
ton. Speaking on the latter point
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, an expert ON
snake poison. says: 81 have over and
over tried this experiment., but in no
case have ! seen death result. Why
should this Def"
DIR. Mitchell further says: "The
many noxious compounds man car
, ries ia his liver ami gastric glands
I [the stoniacb) are fatal II they enter
the blood ia any large amount.
There Is scarcely ala organ ia mans
body which is not a possible source
Of poison to him. Small doses are
constantly passing into aud out Of
his blood. The question Is whether
Le eau get rad Of It as fast as IL &c.
/ cunulates."
Abiding To death by rheumatism,
! govt, and kidney disease, al eminent
London PLY stefan says: Thus man
II poisoned by the products VI his
own body"
Now lot US cite q passage from 4
mans experience as related by him.
self. The time extends over a period
from March, 1883, to May. 1889, more
than a year. lie says: My head
used to whirl around, aud | had fro.
Quent bouts Of faintness aud giddi-
ness; aud az such Hm,s I u,'d 10 JaH
dora, 40 m1ihr whsrs Tus. This
For three weeks | was confined To
my b,1i. grew. gradually weaker
aud weaker aud lost u deal Of sleep.
! felt worse tired IN the morning
than when ! went To bed. After a
while becaiue nervous, and my legs
troubled aud shook under me to
such degree that | feared to walk
out. | had great pain in my kid
Beys and the secretion which l void
ell from them was thick aud yellow
IA the yolk OF III egg. Month after
month passed and ! failed more aud
more, aud could hardly crawl about.
IL had . doctor attending me, but
his medicines did not benefit me.
lie said my liver aud kidneys were
in bad way, aud that he never saw
secr"tions passed in such q state.
After treating mo six mouths, he
told me that medicine could do no
more for me aud advised me to go
to q hospital. went To the Peter.
borough Hospital, but got worse
while there. The hospital doctors
refused TO tell me what allied me.
Having spent two months there, l
got anxious aud returned to my
home, utterly disheartened. ! con.
tinued to send 10 the hospital for
medicines, which | took for three
months longer. was now 80 ema.
ciated that my friends who came To
sse me said | would ne, or get we'll.
"ln this condition | continued un-
til May, 1889, when one day al um
brella vendor called at my house,
aud, seeing how III was, said his
wife had been cured Of u serious i'll.
uess 10y Mother Seig.l's Curative
Syrup. He spoke So earnestly Of il
that ! determined To try il. After
taking the Syrup Tor ten days ! felt
in better spirits; my food agreed
with me, aud from that time gain
ed strength daily. Persevering with
IL, WAS soon able To return To my
work as healthy aud strong as ever.
| 4 hAn L in. Laos
Of health. You are al liberty to
publish the above facts, and will
gladly reply TO any inquiries. Yours
truly (Signed), READ WELFARE, Ram
sey, st. Mays, Hunts, February
18Th, 1892"
No brief comment can do justice
To this remarkable case. What the
public needs to know and to remem,
her is this: Mr.. Welfare's whole sys,
tom was poisoned by the products
Of torpid and inactive Digestion
These had entered his blood, a. DR.
Mitchell describes. The nervous
system was disordered aud hall
paralysed; hence the faintuess and
falling fits. Rattlesnake poison
kills by paralysing the nerves which
actuate the lungs; it kills by sulIo
cation. Human poison, arising from
indigestion and dyspepsia, always
operates in the same direction, caus,
ing asthma in its worst forms. II
then attacks the heart and kidneys
causing the state OF things Mr.
Welfare mentions. Nothing NOR,
noxious, or, in the end, surely fata
exists in any poisonous reptile, And
yet people trile with the disease! ant
doctors seem not to understand it.
Mother Seigel's Curative SyruJ
cures by stimulating the kidneys
skin, aud bowels, aud touing tn,
gastric glands.
Who, then, is mans most deadly
enomyt Careless aud ignorant maj
himself. Use the remedy when tn.
earliest symptoms appear