REMARKABLE CURE
SNAKE VENOM. A boy’s life has just been saved at Torquay by snake venom. The use of snake venom as a cure is one of the most remarkable medical discoveries of our time. Strictly speaking we should say that the venom was that of a viper; it has the effect of clotting the blood. The poor boy in Torbay Hospital was suffering from a mysterious affliction in which the blood will not clot. Its name is haemophilia, and a royal prince of Spain is one of its victims. Because the blood does not clot it continues to flow from even a slight wound and cannot be staunched. From the teeth and gums of the patient at Torquay his life was draining out. The doctors, almost as a last resort, telephoned to St. Bartholomew’s, and four hours later some Russell viper venom arrived. It was applied, and from that moment the blood began to clot, the flow ceased, the boy recovered. This employment of snake venom is a singular example of the way good can come out of evil. We shall have to think of another meaning for the old saying of nursing a viper in one’s bosom.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4873, 21 July 1936, Page 8
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199REMARKABLE CURE King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4873, 21 July 1936, Page 8
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