CHILD BITTEN BY DEATH ADDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 4

CHILD BITTEN BY DEATH ADDER.

SYDNEY, February 8. Word has been received at Mnllnmhimby of the narrow escape from an adder sting of the five-year-old daughter of a selector near Cudgera. The child was playing, and called out that she had been bitten on the ankle by a small black snake. The father looked and found a death adder. He immediately tied a belt round the child's leg, and cut the wound with a razor, squeezing and sucking to get the blood to flow. The attempts were without success for a considerable time. The mother had a try before the wound bled freely. Meanwhile a horse was caught, and father and daughter started at a gallop to visit a doctor. Half-way the girl asked her father to stop, as the pain was too much, her body afterwards • stiffening out, and the father thought it was no use going further. She then said suddenly that she was better, and the journey was continued. Under the doctor's hands the child has quite recovered. It is said that the female death adder's sting is not deadly, like that of the male, and this is given as the reason of recovery. The poison was very bitter to the taste.