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were plainly seen on the 

 dorsal part of his foot when he 

 was brought to my home office in 

 a semi-conscious condition and 

 nearly pulseless, with vomiting 

 spells. 



In spite of proper treatment 

 (some hours having elapsed before 

 he could be brought to my place) , 

 the foot swelled enormously and 



which I prepared after the fourth 

 week, shows how the foot appeared 

 at the time; the broad white area 

 representing the cicatriced tissue 

 forming around the ulcerated pla- 

 ces. The boy fully recovered with 

 but little stiffness of the ankle. 



The gravel-pits and hilly regions 

 around San Antonio, I may add, 

 in olden times, always were favor- 



Child's Foot After Rattlesnake Bite 



was badly inflamed ah-cady when 

 the boy was seen first, but he 

 ultimately recovered after several 

 weeks, with a "close shave" of 

 nearly having lost his leg, which 

 had been inflamed and swollen 

 up to his thigh with threatened 

 gangrene. The illustration herein, 



ed haunts of the rattlesnake, but 

 they abounded also in the flat 

 valleys, especially along the Salado 

 and Leona, where they found 

 shelter in the thick underbrush 

 and cactus jungles and where 

 abundant prairie rats, mice and 

 the cotton-tail rabbit, etc., fur- 



