The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-12
J. E. WoOley's Experience With
a Scorpions Bite
HEROIC REMEDIES SAVED HIM
One OF the Incidents OF Life in
Death Valley
Sixty lille Ride for q Dcctor-The Pbysl-
clans Treatment Of the
Wound

]. e. Wooley, a well-known young man
| Of this city residing at 529 South Broad
way, had narrow escape from horri-
| Bile death and he is by no means yet fully
recovered from the deadly poison that a
| desert scorpion injected into his system.
Mr.. Wooley is miner and has some
| valuable claims he was working in Death
valley. He was lying on cot IN his
cabin last Sunday afternoon. OF a sud-
den he felt a sharp sting and in a Sec
ond his entire body fel; as though he had
received strong shock of electricity.
Rising up, Mr.. Wooley glanced at his
right hand and saw resting there one of
thu desert scorpions, six and one-half
inches long. 1t had fallen from the Gel
ling of tie cabin on to his hand and as
SOON as it reached there the deadly fang
was sent out from the tail of the reptile.
entering the back of the hand just below
and between the first and second fingers.
AS soon as Mr.. Wooley beheld the scor-
picn he realized his danger. Sweeping
it from him he hurriedly placed his lips
to the wound and began sucking forth
the poisoned blood. He also gripped the
wrist of the poisoned hand with all the
strength he possessed to stop the circula-
| ton of the blood and to prevent the
poison permeating his entire system.
Soon Wooley's partner, who had been
absent when the unfortunate fall of tine
scorpion occurred, returned: When he
arrived Wooley was suffering untold
agony. His hand was rapidly swelling
despite all of his efforts and the fear that
the poison was going to go entirely
through his system almost drove him to
insanity. He could not long have con.
tinued the vice.like grip his left hand
maintained on his right wrist, for the
muscles were rapidly becoming paraly zed
from the tension they had been under for
three-quarters of an hour. Owing to the
intense pain he was suffering he could
not keep his mouth to the wound to draw
forth blood.
1t was at TINS critical juncturs that
Wooley's partner came back. AS soon as
he realized what had happened he Sc
cured piece of rope quarter of an inch
in diameter. With this he tied the right
wrist so tightly that the rope was i'm
bedded into and on a level with the flesh.
| BY this time the hand had swollen to
two hours the swelling had become so
great that the skin burst over the veins
| of the hand that extend from the knuok-
les to the wrist between each finger.
| The partner placed his mouth to the
I wound and drew forth every drop Of blood
|
place whore the rope had stopped the cir
| culation.
The nearest doctor was sixty miles
away. Wooley concluded to go to him
and mounting swift pony he made the
ride The physician examined the hand
| and decided that If Wooey desired to
save his life it shonlh be amputated at
once. The pain had ceased and Wooley
declined to submit to the operation. He
did not think any of the blood had en-
tered his system.
Wooley had the hand dressed and came
to Los Angeles. A consultation OF doc
| tors was held here and great surprise was
expressed that Wooley had not died two
hours after he was stung. That he had
saved his life was considered most mirao-
| ulous.
| Instead of amputating the hand the
| doctors decided that it would be best to
scrape the bones. For three hours after
the sting had been implanted the blood
remained in the hand and the poison had
entered the bones. This wa. the cause
which would render amputation neces-
sary. But instead of performing the
operation physician laid the skin back
| from each bone in the hand and twice a
day the bones are scraped with an instru-
ment TO gradually take away the poison
| ed portions that would in time decay and
rot away all the bones.
| Since the scorpions sting was i'm plant
| ed in Mr.. WOoleys hand be has lost
| twenty-eight pounds of flesh owing to the
terrible ordeal thr rough which he has
| passed and the uncertainty which has up
| till now attached to the outcome of the
| case. The doctors are greatly interested
in the result and are watching the hand
closely.
The scorpions sting is deadly. The
reptiles are from five to ten inches in
length and in appearance they resem BILE
the crabs found on the beach, They i'm
plant their sting by throwing their tail
over their head and sinking the fang into
the flesh of anything coming within It's
reach.
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