Cobras of Italian Farm May Aid Fight Against Disease
NEW YORK. A snake farm has been set up at Ai'kona, hi Italy, to get serum as a possible aid in the tight against poliomvclitis. Subsidised by the Italian Government. it will be the first major attempt to apply snake poison to infantile paralysis. According to n Rome dispatch to the Madrid daily. ABC, physicians in India in 1935 initiated research into treatment of cancer with serum from cobra venom. The icica had been discovered accidentally the previous year when a British colonel in the Indian Aimy, suffering from advanced cancer, was bitten by such a snake.
A? reported in the British India Society's Bulletin in London, the colonel managed to suck out most of the poison in time to save his life. He suffered only high fever as a result of the poison that remained in his blood stream. But in the hospital where he was being treated it was noticed also that his cancer "withered away.'’ Physicians connected this phenomenon with the bite and. as a result of subsequent experiments, claimed cancer cutes in SO to 85 per cent of eases. The Ancona farm, says the Spanish paper, is being stocked with cobras. Polio will be only one of the diseases asainsl which, the action of snake serum will be tried experimentally.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23116, 1 December 1949, Page 10
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