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BITE OF THE RATTLESNAKE. Backwood Remedies Endorsed By Science. New York Sun. Now and then science contirIns some of the old-wife medical super stitions of the backwoods. For in stance, the "yarb" doctor and old women of rattlesnake regions say that when a man gets over a rattle snake bite he has trouble in the wound every year afterward. Pathologists and toxicologists who have stutdied snake poisons agree that this is true, only the 'trouble d,esn't occur every year. It happens whenever the system gets out of or der. The explanation is simple. Snake poison has the effect of destroying tissue. Of course, it has the strong est effect in and about the wound where the poison, in its. course through the veins, has not ye: been diluted by 'the blood. Ever afterward that is a weak point in the system. Any little dis turbance in the blood tends to break out at that point of the wound. When this happens the old wives say that it is the poison working. It is not, of course. It is only the excess poison of the body working in the weak spot. There was a case of this kind with a rather unusual history in the Colo redo hospital a few years ago. The patient was a scout who had helped the army make way for civilization in'the Rockies. The Utes, Arapahoes and other Indians of that region were mostly unsupplied with guns in those days, but they had a most effective kind of poisoned arrow. They would catch a bundle of rattlesnakes and taking a fresh buffalo liver would make the serpents strike in it until the poison glands were exhatstedl and the meat reked with venom. After that they would leave the liver in the sun until it became putrid. Into this mess they would dip their war arrows. It made a nasty poison. With such an arrow the scout was struck in the leg. It carried, of course, not ohlv the snake venom. but all kinds of possibilities of blood poisoning. By good luck a first rate army surgeon was at hand. H-e saved the scout's life. This happened in the 1wring. Every spring after that the man's leg would break out with sores and boils and other sundry afflictions, it looked as though the case were p-'oved tor the witch doctors. The physicians went into the life history of the patient and found that .,ng before he stopped the poisoned arrow he had been afRicted wilh a breaking out cvery sprinlg. lie wrS one of those p)eple who load up on anima' diet all winter mnd need a cleaning out when the season breaks. It had merely settled in th:e we.-ak spot. Next year he attended to~ his liver earlier and had no further trouble. In the treatment of rattlesnake bites the rough and ready physicians of the backwoods scored again on the modern scientist. In spite of analysis and laborious experiments and government prizes, the treat ment discovered by the pioneers when New York was a wilderness is still standard. Cut the wvound, suck it out, burn or cauterize the spot and keep the patient drunk on whiskey until the danger is past. Medical men have tried all manner of substitutes, but come back to the original method. The sucking, of course, is to get out as much poison as possible: the cauterization prevents local mi:ce tion, and the whiskey keeps the heart going in its task of clearing up the blood. Strychnine, which is a powerful heart stimulant, has been tried as a substitute, but wvith rather unsatisfactory results. There is the danger of overdoing it and a'lie strychnine poisonl to the patient's troubles. Then. again. wh i,key, wh ile it stimulates the heart, also dleadleus the brain. That helps the patient to bear the terrible pain of snake bite at a time when ordinary anaes thetics would be dangerous. So the old, untutored doctor of the backwoods has beaten modern ience in two counts. He Crawfished. New York Sun. When five or six men get together and begin to talk stories, there is always more or less lying done. es pecially if they are only casual ac quaintances. Going down on the boat from Natchez there were three or four -rings" which hung togeth er. and ea.h of us tol, some prct.v tall stori:. There wa a man romi Syracuse who laid himsell out for a whopper, and when the rest of us were through he settled back and said: "Gentlemen, the ship which was carrying me to India was burned off the island of Borneo. and I got away in a boat with a single sailor." "When was this?" asked a native Mississippian, who was taking a lot of mules down the river. "In 1858." "Exactly-go ahead." "We had neither water or provis ions in the boat," said the man, "and after drifting for three days I want ed to draw lots to see who should die. The sailor refused." "His name?" asked the Mississip pian. "Foster. I believe." "You are right: go ahead." "I suffered one clay more, and then, as he slept I killed him with my knife and drank his blood. It saved my life. Next day I was picked up by a ship." "And you killed the man, did you?" "I did." "And drank his blood?" "Yes." "Well, you are the nian I've been looking for these :.iany years. That sailor was my brother-my big brother-the only brother I ever had!" ,,No!" "Yes, he was. Some of those who got away in another boat saw him go ff with you and told me of it. Stranger, the man who drinks my brother's blood has got to die!" "But you must be .mistaken. I-I ardly think his name was Foster." "Oh. yes it was. Name was Foster -ship got afire-off the island of Borneo-drifted about in a boat. It's ll straight and now I want satisfac :ion. Have you got a bowie knife ibout youl?" "Look here, boys," said the Syra :use man as he caught his breath, 'I'm in a box and have got to make i confession. I was lying about hat adventure from start to finish." 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