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SINGULAE SNAKE POISONING.

A correspondent of the Queensland Times relates the following singular case of snake poisoning :—" On Monday. 6th December, I boiled the kettle, and filled my ea-pot with the boiling water. I drank two or thr.< c cut soi tea. JNt-x' day, and the .ollonitig days, up to Wednesday, the isth Decembt-r, I added as much water from time to time as would keep (lie kettlp lull, or nearly full. Thus much about feeding the kettle. I partook of the tea made from the waier out of the , kettle two or three times a day Irom 'Monday, 6'h Decembt-r to Wednesday 15th December. The first sympton I felt was a soreness in the tin oat; then followed a disinclination for food. Then followtd a sloihlulness in the activiiy of my limbs and a slight paralysis of the calf of the leg, and it has more or less continued lingering there. Sleeping came o»er me on Sunday, 12th December. I could hardly keej) awake during the day. On Mond iy, the 13ih, I slept six or eiyht hours. I am nt-ver in the habit of sleeping more than eiyht hours iv the t«euty-fciur. At seven o'clock on Monday evening I took a walk of three or /our miles, and perspired pnifustly. I slept roundly all uight. Un Tuesday I slept Seven hours. I felt light headed and dizzy—my eyesight becama dimmed. I fel a nausea iv the stomach. I slept fifteen or sixteen hours in the twenty fout on Tuesday end Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning iv emptying the kettle of about two pints ot water I happened to put my fiuger up the spout, and discovered, as 1 thought, thin twigs in it ; but 1 found a young suake, black, apparently mure roasted than boiled, I then, and not till then, be»an to trace the gym^tuns. I had nut suspected poison, but as soon as I found the snake the light flashed upen my mind that I had been .for eight days imbibing diluted snake poison. Immediately I began to take medicine to neutralise the poison in the blood, and gradually the sleepiness and paralytic effects began to subside.

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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 March 1881, Page 4

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SINGULAE SNAKE POISONING. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 March 1881, Page 4

SINGULAE SNAKE POISONING. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 March 1881, Page 4

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