From the Indiana Hh;r.
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As The public in the western country are much
interested in knowing whatever may be good rem.
edy hlt the poison injected into The human flesh by
the bite OF snake, think il my duty 10 state fact
within my own knowledge. About the year 1873
or 1916, one Of my children was bitten by copper.
head on the inside of both the anees neatly at the
same instant. instantly procured pulserized char
coal and mixed it With as much hogs lard as made
It adhere. then made plaster o il, and applied
i TO the wounds renewing the plaster every twenty
or thirty minutes, for ten Twelve hours, at the
same time giving the child fresh milk to dfink This
remedy had the desired effect and very little pain
was endured after the first sppplic aion Not more
than hive minutes elapsed from the time the child
was bitten until the cure was applied, and in thar
short time violent was the advance of The poison
being near blood vessssl, that its tongue was much
swollen, and green matter vomiied by The child
but the effect Of the ando,e was nearly as ins,aD,a
neous as the poison. Severel Of my neghbors in
the sicay OF Newport, Bail ssile 10 this coun
| ty, can attest The above facts.


JAMES MOORHEAD.