BITTEN BY A SNAKE
Victor M'Donald, employed at the lighthouse at Inskip Point, near Maryborough, Queensland, went to attend to the lights two miles away at 5 a.m. one day recentlv. Ho was on horseback, and he put his hand into a box to get some waste with which to clean the-lamps, when he felt a bite on the finger, which he attributed to a crab. On again putting his hand in the box be was seized between the thumb and the forefinger of the right hand by a tiger snake. The snake hung on tenaciously, but after a struggle it was dislodged. M'Donald put the affected part in his mouth, and vigorously bit and sucked the wound. Ho continued to do this while riding back to the lighthouse, whe. , on arrival, he bound a ligature above the wrist, cauterised the with a razor, and applied Condy’s crystals. He then rang up a doctor and the harbourmaster, and was advised to go to town straight away. Not wishing to leave the lights unattended, M'Donald stuck to his post. Towards .midnight, he took a bad turn, and Mr Wilson, inspector of fisheries, conveyed him to a hospital by launch. He was.
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Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 3
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200BITTEN BY A SNAKE Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 3
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