THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
258 0>|7
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SNAIyE-BITES.?HOW TO TREAT THEM. TO
THE
EDITOR
OP
THE
INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE.
Dear Sir,?Allow me to send you, for the edification of those of your readers who are interested in the subject of snake-bites, the following remedy, formerly proposed in Asia Minor, for the bite of the Tarente or Tarentola (probably the poisonous Laccrta, Geclco of Linnseus). The passage will scarcely admit of translation. It is to be found in Albert d' Aix :? " Similiter et aliam edocti sunt medicinam, ut vir percussus sine mora coiret cum muliere, cum viro mulier, et sic ab omni tumore veneni liberaretur uterque." I have come upon the above in Michaud's 11 History of the Crusades," Vol. I., p. 199.
Yours, &c.,
L>. 15. S. I'.S.?The authorities of the Indian Sporting have, I see, been disputing on the question whether wild pigs ever do, or do not, eat snakes. Volney, in his " Ruin of Empires," mentions the fact that Negroes (the inhabitants of Juida) adore God under the figure of an enormous serpent, of which, unfortunately, the swine are particularly fond. The words are these: "Voila l'liabitaut de Juida, qui adore Dieu dans un grand serpent, dont, pas malheur, les pores sont avides" (p. 162). In, a foot-note (page 331) I also fiud the following words :? " II arrive souvent que les pores devorent des serpens de l'espece que les Negres adorent."
[November 2,
186S.
258 0>|7
cL
&
SNAIyE-BITES.?HOW TO TREAT THEM. TO
THE
EDITOR
OP
THE
INDIAN
MEDICAL
GAZETTE.
Dear Sir,?Allow me to send you, for the edification of those of your readers who are interested in the subject of snake-bites, the following remedy, formerly proposed in Asia Minor, for the bite of the Tarente or Tarentola (probably the poisonous Laccrta, Geclco of Linnseus). The passage will scarcely admit of translation. It is to be found in Albert d' Aix :? " Similiter et aliam edocti sunt medicinam, ut vir percussus sine mora coiret cum muliere, cum viro mulier, et sic ab omni tumore veneni liberaretur uterque." I have come upon the above in Michaud's 11 History of the Crusades," Vol. I., p. 199.
Yours, &c.,
L>. 15. S. I'.S.?The authorities of the Indian Sporting have, I see, been disputing on the question whether wild pigs ever do, or do not, eat snakes. Volney, in his " Ruin of Empires," mentions the fact that Negroes (the inhabitants of Juida) adore God under the figure of an enormous serpent, of which, unfortunately, the swine are particularly fond. The words are these: "Voila l'liabitaut de Juida, qui adore Dieu dans un grand serpent, dont, pas malheur, les pores sont avides" (p. 162). In, a foot-note (page 331) I also fiud the following words :? " II arrive souvent que les pores devorent des serpens de l'espece que les Negres adorent."
[November 2,
186S.
