REMOVEb POISON FROlVl SNAKES. 



Interesting Exhibition at East Milton 

 With Reptiles Caught In the Blue 

 Hills. 



A crowd of about 150 people gath- 

 ered in East Milton Tuesday niglit to 

 watch B. Grover, a herpetologist from 

 Hyde Park, extract the poison from 

 the fangs of two reptiles recently cap- 

 tured in the Blue Hills. One was a 

 young rattlesnake about two and one- 

 half feet long, and the other a large 

 copperhead, three and one-half feet in 

 length. They were captured by James 

 Leary of Granite avenue and have 

 been on exhibition in the window of 

 •J. J. Hammers' drug store. 



Mr. Grover grasped each snake by 

 the neck and induced it to strike into 

 soft rubber stretched over a vessel, 

 in which the poison was caught. He 

 then put the poison in a vial. He said 

 the rattlesnake was a young one, but 

 the copperhead was larger than usual. 

 The poison of the copperhead, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Grover, acts about 

 five times as quick as that of the rat- 

 tlesnake and a bite may cause death 

 within six hours. . 

 ' In case of a bite the remedy is to 

 cut away the flesh from the point bit- 

 ten about a half inch deep and one 

 inch long. This should be followed by 

 the use of permanganate of potash 

 and chloride of lime as local washes. 

 He said there are 22 species of snakes 

 in New England, but the rattlesnake 

 and copperhead are the only two that 

 are poisonous. Mr. Grover said that he 

 has collected nearly every variety of 

 snake found in Eastern Massachusetts. 



