CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 



and during the last day those remedies were used he knew 

 nothing, and they gave him up to die. 



" His father concluded to try how it would operate to cut 

 the wound open and apply cold water. He cut the wound 

 open three fourths of an inch in depth, and one cut above 

 also, and poured cold water on it from a coffee-pot. 



" In about two hours consciousness returned, and in three 

 or four days he was running about again, entirely recov- 

 ered. 



"Isaac Gruber, at Paradise (a few miles above), was 

 bitten about twenty-two years ago in the leg, just above the 

 ankle. 9(to 



. " They bound his thigh very tight, and doctored him with 

 all the remedies they knew for four or five days. The limb 

 swelled up "as large as a barrel," and burst open in forty or 

 fifty places in a kind of blisters, from which the yellow water 

 was running. He fainted about every half-hour. At length, 

 hearing of J. Price's father, they sent for him. He arrived 

 about noon. He cut the limb open in more than fifty places, 

 half an inch deep, and poured on cold spring-water, and be- 

 fore night the fainting ceased, and the man was soon entirely 

 restored. 



" The same man was bitten once afterwards, and cured in 

 the same way by J. Price's father. 



" The little son of Wm. Bodhead, who keeps the hotel at 

 the Delaware Water Gap, was bitten by a pilot snake and 

 was very ill ; and they had the doctors and applied their usual 

 remedies for two or three days, but without success. They 

 then sent for his father, who, on account of the boy being 

 quite young, and the case a bad one, feared to make the in- 

 cisions at first, but at length did so, and the boy is now well. 

 Thinks this was seven or eight years ago. 



" Jacob Price further says, and I give his own words, as I 

 have done very nearly in the preceding statements : 



" * George Sears was bitten in the big toe about seven 

 years ago, and I was there, happening to be passing with my 

 team. The swelling was passing up his leg, and was about 

 half way to his knee when I arrived, being, an inch thicker at 

 the swollen part, and advancing up the leg in the form of a 

 ring. 



" ' I cut the toe open and applied water, pouring it on 

 from a height out of a coffee-pot. The swelling stopped its 



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