140 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENOES. 



besides being a powerful heart 

 stimulant. One of the first ac- 

 counts of adrenalin treatment of 

 snake bite had been published by 

 the writer some years ago in Dr. 

 McDaniel's Texas Medical Jour- 

 nal, Austin, Texas, (combined 

 with hydroclorate of cocaine, a lo- 

 cal anesthetic, the adrenalin treat- 

 ment v.'ould be still more improved 

 upon.) 



ap'o, by a young rattlesnake, at 

 his home, only three miles from 

 this city, near some of the old 

 gravel-pits. He was ordered one 

 evening to get a bucket of water at - 

 a close-by watering place, in the 

 rear of a fenced-up sugar cane 

 patch, and night coming on, he 

 must have stepped unaware on the 

 reptile, as he suddenly felt a very 

 painful sting on his foot (being - 



Poison Fangs of Various Reptiles, Mostly Rattlesnake and Moccasin 



(Several Glass Jars Full of Them Had Been Collected by Mr. Wm. Learn at His Reptile 



Establishment During the Last Twenty Years — Original Photo) 



The accompanying photograph 

 of a child's foot bitten by a rattle- 

 snake is presented herewith to 

 my readers merely to show what 

 such foot looks like after severe 

 inflammation, ulceration and in 

 part of which gangrene had set in. 



The child in this case, a boy aged 

 about eleven years, was bitten 

 early in the spring, some years 



barefooted), and at the same time 

 he perceived a maddened rattler 

 close by. Managing to run to the 

 house for help and nearly fainting 

 on the way, some of the Mexicans 

 hurried to the watering place and 

 there succeeded in tracing the snake 

 close to the sugar cane patch, and 

 killed it. It was not a large snake, 

 they told me, but two fang wounds 



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