CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 



Complained of great aching all up the arm to the shoul- 

 der, all day. 



Frontal headache, present in the morning, disappeared 

 after inoculation. 



Temper quicker than usual. 



Face flushed in the evening, and burning hot. 



2d day. Throat dry on waking. 



Face red on rising, and covered with hard knots as in 

 erysipelas ; this disappeared after washing. 



Appeared at breakfast with the point of the nose deco- 

 rated with small papules on a slightly inflamed base; nose 

 sore in consequence. 



5th day. Cutting pains in nape of neck. 



Temper good, very excitable and playful, oftener than 

 common. 



6th day. Pimples going away from nose. 



No more symptoms." 



From the Water- Cure Journal, August, 1853. 

 BITE OF THE RATTLESNAKE. 



The following communication, which contains some in- 

 teresting statements, has been sent us for publication : 



" Jacob Price's Saw-mill, 

 17 miles N. W. of Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa. 



" Jacob Price, a hunter and lumberman, says, when he was 

 about eight or nine years of age, some thirty-eight or thirty- 

 nine years ago, in the month of May, he and some other boys 

 were rolling stones down a hill, and he was bitten by a rattle- 

 snake of the yellow kind, which they afterwards killed. The 

 bite was in the left arm, through a flannel shirt and linsey 

 roundabout lined with linsey. It made a scratch like a brier- 

 scratch. 



" In two or three hours it swelled up so he could not close 

 his fingers. , 



" It happened half a mile from home. He was carried to 

 his father's house, and they applied herbs and various reme- 

 dies ; among others they used a poultice of snake-root, and^ 

 he drank new milk, arid they applied salt and indigo. This < 

 was done for two or three days, when the arm became black 

 up to the shoulder, and his body swollen down over his heart, 

 and the black streaks were extending down over his body; 



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