THE SNAKE PERIL
NO BITE BUT FATAL REMEDY.
(DNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.) (Received 30th October, 11.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. , _ Thomas Nagle, aged 53, while walking on the river bank at Albury, encountered a tiger snake, and at the same time felt a sharp prick on the calf of his right leg. He scarified the leg on the spot, and rubbed nicotine from the stem it his pipe into the wound. After receiving medical attention he walked home, where he collapsed, arid was removed' to the hospital. Subsequently He died. An examination showed that he ha,d not been bitten by the snake, and that was due to nicotine poisoning.
_ The well-known sire Mimer, which sired eighteen winners last season, died at; Casino, after being bitten on the lower lip by a snake. • '
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5
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132THE SNAKE PERIL Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5
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