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moment an aborigine is bitten, he squats down and pinches the 
bitten part between his thumb-nails. This causes the blood to 
exude from the fang punctures, which is rubbed off every now and 
not been idle. A small fire has been made, and a piece of 
of opossum skin heated thereat, to as high a temperature as th 
h 
opossum skin applications until the patient is deemed out of 
nger. The whole operation seldom lasts more than three-quarters 
of an hour. 
 tlitgd freely, and as long as the faintest trace of blood came SO 
did’ did the pinching continue ; however, the whole proceedings 
id not occupy more than ten minutes. When the aborigine got 
Po i ground to the camp after sunset when it happened, and as 
ra had still 2 miles to go after the accident the poison had ample 
“me to get into the circulation. As a matter of course, in this 
