A Cure for Snake Bites.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2293, 5 January 1900, Page 3

A Cure for Snake Bites.

Many experiments have recently been made with the new mushroom serHm for the cure of snake bites, all of which have been successful. The wide importance of popular knowledge of the ouring of snake bites, particularly in those countries where snakes are numerous can easily be estimated. It is an extension of the principle of like curing like. For counteracting the effects of snake bites many cures have been prescribed, varying from Jthat of drinking enormous quantities of whisky to the application of mushroom vacpine. Beat in'mind that some soak# bites act than others, and jronseqpefitly the application of the remedy •Should be made promptly. It is hardly necessary to state that time ia gained by applying the remedy directiy to the nervous system. Experiments have been made upon various animals, among those being a rat. After having been bitten by a snake the rat showed all the symptoms of collapse. A strong injection of the serum working upon the nervous system soon sec it right. Experiments upon dogs with this new species of vaccination have proved that, for at least one month after vaccination, dogs cannot be poisoned by snake bites. It seems that the effects of the vaccination grow weaker as time rolls on. It is clear from the foregoing that we have discovered the principle of prevent >n, and at least a limited application of tßt «me. Science has not yet said its last word upon this subject. The solution of the problem of prevention not merely for a month or so, but for a life time, is within sight.