Rearing Snakes for the Venom They Yield 



At top: The death struggle between a poison- 

 ous and a non -poisonous snake. The coils are 

 exerting a crushing force and the fangs of 

 the crushed one are at the other's throat 



At top: Dr. Vital Brazil extracting the venom 

 from a poisonous snake. The poison sacs 

 of the snake are pressed, forcing the angry 

 reptile to eject the venom from the fangs 



Sev^J^i) °"t11-' ""^^^/^'""^ ^t.Sao Paulo. Brazil. The snakes are raised for the poison which 

 tney yield. This is in turn used as an antitoxin for different diseases, including snakebite itself 



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