Word: antivenin
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...total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple and effective and very widely understood"). He has also spent an entire year in tortuous bureaucratic negotiation to have a tribe restored to its ancestral village. He smokes incessantly, sleeps with...
...venom), he developed a savage headache within minutes. His parents rushed him to Katella Hospital in nearby Stanton. As the evening wore on, Ken's mouth tightened up. He had difficulty talking, then in swallowing, finally in breathing. Through the night, doctors gave him small doses of cobra antivenin...
Russell, one of the world's top authorities on snakebite, took over and transferred Ken to Los Angeles County Hospital. Fortunately, the San Diego zoo had some tiger-snake antivenin, and Dr. Russell got it fast. Even then, massive doses could not immediately halt the venom's attack on Ken's nervous system. His throat was cut open to pass a tube down his windpipe. Soon he was in an iron lung. The venom attacked the blood. Ken had to have five transfusions, plus injections of clotting drugs to control internal bleeding...
...tobacco, ammonia, kerosene, gunpowder, nitric acid, lye, quicklime, and freshly killed chickens, split and applied to the wound. All such nostrums are useless, as is the classic remedy, whisky, which Klauber thinks has killed many snakebite victims who would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should be enlarged to promote bleeding, and as much of the poison as possible should be sucked out of it. Then the patient should...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...