RATTLE SNAKE. 
motions of the animal that inflifted the wound. 
This was followed by a fever, with the loss of 
his hair, giddiness, drought, debilirs^, and ner- 
vous faintings ; till, at length, by slow degrees, 
a very strong habit, co-operating with medici- 
nal applications, compleatly expelled the latent 
malignity. 
In the History of Peru, an account is given 
of a voung woman, vv'ho was wounded bv a 
Rattle Snake, and died on the spot, before any 
relief could be had ; and, when the corpse 
came to be taken up, the flesh separated from 
the bones, so speedily did the violence of the 
poison dissolve the strufiiure of the body. 
Several remedies have been tried to alleviate 
this calamity : a deco6lion of the Virginian 
Snake-root is considered as the most eifica- 
cious ; and, at the same time, the head of tlie, 
reptile, bruised and laid on the part afFc6lcd, is 
judged to assist the cure. In general, howe- 
ver, it is found to be fatal ; and the Indians, 
sensible of this, frequently dip their arrows in 
the poison lodged under the fangs of this ve- 
nomous creature, when their savage disposi- 
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