SERIOUS SNAKE BITE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

SERIOUS SNAKE BITE.

MORE ADDERS IN BRITAIN. One of the most; serious cases of snakebite which have ever occurred in England, is referred to by a leading journal.A woman walking down some cliSs near Plymouth was bitten on the fopfc by a snake. She immediately had the wound sucked and a handkerchief was tied round her ankle. In five minutes, however, a large swelling developed. She felt a " tight" feeling across the chest and difficulty in breathing. In half tin heur tlie woman bad collapsed and her face and lips were swollen, while she wa3 practically pulseless. _ Tho woman was given injections of adrenalin and brandy to drink, and moved to a nursing-home, where "the wound »as incised and potassium permanganate nibbed in. After, four days the swelling disappeared and sho began to recover.^ An official of : the Royal Zoological Society said that tho hot summer had been responsible for an increasee in » numbers of the adder, England s <Ol y poisonous snake. "It has ma 6 ~ , for tho snakes to rear their y° iS> ] stated. " The adder is found paiticuiary, SL s t"^.■*»* and the female is harmyoung. and b 7"°i'b"hich it U someusually olive green ln coloi?l ' B This- is. usually a S of White elastic.. A deep.cross fufc where the bit? ii «nd .potassium *p*& manganato rubbed in.--