SNAKE POISON AND HUMAN POISON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 10, 6 July 1894, Page 29

SNAKE POISON AND HUMAN POISON.

The bite of the rattlesnake is almost always fatal to man. Yet this snake is never affected by the injection of its own poison into its own blood, neither when enraged it bites itself nor when its venom is injecttd by artificial moans to test the question. Speaking on the latter point Dr B. Weir Mitchell, an expert on snake poisoo, lays : " I have over and over tried this experiment, but in no case hate I seen dea'h result. Why should thia be ?"

Dr Mitchell further says : "The many noxious compounds man carries in his liver and gastric glands (the stomach) are fatal if they enter the blood in any large amount. There is scarcely an organ in man's body which ia not a possible source of poison to him. Small doses are constantly passing into and oat of his blood. The question is whether he can get rid of it as fast as it accumulates."

Alluding to death by rheumatism, gout, and kidney disease, aa eminent London physician says : " Thus man is poisoned by the products of his own body."

Now let us cite a passage from a man's experience na related by himself. The time extends over a period from March, 1888, to May, 1889 more than a year. He says : "My head used to whirl around, and I had frequent bouta of faintness and giddiness ; and at suck times liiscd to fall doivn, no matter where I was. This would occur two or three times a day. For three weeks I was confined to my bed. I grew weaker and weaker and lost a deal of sleep. I felt worse tired in the morning than when I went to bed. After a time I became nervous, and my legs trembled and shook under m« to suoh a degree that I feared to walk out. I had great pain in my kidneys, and the secretion which I voided from them was thick and yellow as the yolk of an egg. Month after month passed and I failed more and more, and could hardly crawl about.

" I had a doctor attending me, but hia medicines did not benefit me. He said my liver and kidneys were in a bad way, and that he never saw Becretions passed in ench a state. After treating me cix months, he told me that medicine could do no more for me and advised me to go to a hospital. I went to the Peterborough Hospital but got worse while there. The hospital doctors refused to tell ma what ailed me. Having spent two months there, I got anxious and returned to my home, utterly disheartened. I continued to send to the hospital for medicines, which I took for three months longer. 1 was now so emaciated that my friends who came to see me aaid I wonld never get well.

" In this condition I continued until May, 1889, when one day an umbrella vendor called at my house, and, seeing how ill I wa«, said his wife bad bsen cured of a serious illness by Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup. He spoke bo earnestly of it that I determined to try it. After taking the Syrup for ten days I felt in better spirits ; my food agreed with me, and from that time I gained strsngth daily. Persevering wich it, I wan soon able to return to my work aa healtky and strong as ever. Since then I bave been in the best of health. You are at liberty to publish the above facts, and I will gladly reply to any inquiries. Yours truly (signed), Read WELFARE, Ramsey, St Mary's, Hutts, Febrmry 18tb, 1892."

No brief comment can do justice to this remarkable case What the public needs to know and to remember is this : Mr Welfare's whole system wag poisoned by the products of a torpid and inactive digestion. These had entered his blood, as Dr Mitchell describes. The nervous system was disordered and half paralysed ; hence the faintcesa and falling fits. Rattlesnake poison kills by paralysing the nerves which actuate the lungs ; it kills by suff jcation. Human poison, arising from indigestion and dyspepsia, always opeiates in tba same direction, causia? asthma in its worst forms. It then attacks the heart anj k rtnevfl, ctusing the state of things Mr Welfare mentions. Nothing more noxious, or, in the end, surely fatal exists in any poisonous reptile. And yet people trida with the disease ! and doctors seem not to understand it.

Mother Seigel's Curative Byrup cures by simulating the kidneys, skin, and bowels, anl toning the gastric glandq. Who, then, is man's most deadly enemy ? Careless ani ignorant man himself. Use the remedy when the earliest symptoms appear*