SNAKE POISON AND HUMAN POISON.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1034, 18 May 1894, Page 3

SNAKE POISON AND HUMAN POISON.

The bite of the rattlesnake is almost I always fatal to man. "Yet this snake j is never affected by tn« injection of its ! own poison into its own blood, neither ! when enraged it bites itself nor when j its venom is injected by artificial means. jto test the question. Speaking on the latter point Dr S. Weir Mitchell, an expert on snake poison, says : ' I have over and over tried this experiment, but in no case have I seen death result. Why should this heY ~Dv Mitchell further says: 'The many noxious compounds man carries in his liver and gastric glands (the stomach) are fatal if they enter the blood in any large amount. There is scarcely an organ in man's body which is not a possible source of poison to him. Small doses are constantly pass ing out into his blood. The question is whether he can get rid of it as fast as it accumulates.' Alluding to death by rheumatism, gout and kidnej disease, an eminent London physician says : 'Thus man is poisoned by the products of • his own body.' Now let us cite a passage from a man's experience as related by himself. The time extends over a period from March 1888 to May 189, more than a year. He says : 'My head used to whirl around, and I had frequent bouts of giddiness ; and at such times I used to fall down % no matter where I was. This would occur two or three times a day. For three weeks J was confined to bed. I gradually grew weaker and weaker and lost a deal of sleep. I felt worse tired in the. morning than when I went to bed. After a while I became nervous and my legs trembled and shook under me to such a degree that I feared to walk out. I had great pain in my kidneys, and the secretion which I voided from them was thick and yellow as the yolk of an egg. Month after month passed and I failed more and more and could hardly crawl about. ■ I had a doctor attending me, but his medicines dip not benefit me. He said my liver and kidneys were in a bad way, and that he never saw secretions passed in such a state. After teating me six months, he told me that medicine could do wo no more good, and advised me. to go to the Peterborough Hospital, but got worse while there. The hospital doctors refused to tell me what ailed, me. Having spent two months there, I got anxious and returned to my home thoroughly disheartened. I continued to send to the hospital for medicines, which I took, for some months longer. I was now so emaciated that my friends who came to see me said I would never get well. 'In this condition I remained until May 1889, when one day an umbrella vendor called afc my house, and, seeing how ill I was, said his wife had been cured of a serious 'illness by Mother Seigels Curative Syrup. He spoke so earnestly of it that I determined to try it. After taking the Syrup for ten days 1 felt in better spirits ; my food agreed with me, and from that time I gained strength daily. Persevering with it I was soon able to return to my work as- healthy and strong as ever. Since then I have been in the best of health. You are at liberty to publish, the above facts, and I will gladly reply to any inquiries. Yours truly (Signed), Read Welfare, Ramsey, St. Mary's, Hunts, February ISth, 1892.' • No brief comment can do justice to this remarkable case. What the public needs to know and to remember is this — Mr Welfare's system was poisoned by the products of a torpid and inactive digestion. These had entered his blood as Mr Mitchell describes. The nervous system was disordered and half-para-lysed ; hence the faintness and falling fits. Rattlesnake poison kills by. paralysing the lungs ; it kills by suffocation. Human poison arising from indigestion and dyspepsia, always operates in the same direction, causing asthma in its worst forms. It then attacks the heart and kidneys, causing the state of things Mr Welfare mentions. Nothing mor noxious or, in the end, surely fatal exists in any poisonous reptile. And yet people trifle with the disease and doctors seem not to understand it. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cures by stimulating the kidneys, skin and bowels and toning the gastric glands. Who, then is man's most deadly enemy % Careless and ignorant man himself. Use the remedy when the earliest symptoms appear.