Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Rollers gathered two Sundays ago in Virginia near Mulberry Gap on the Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home...
...Bite...
...bite your thumb...
...bite my thumb...
...bite is where your lips can reach it, suck it out thoroughly. Then bathe it in lukewarm (not hot) water and paint it with iodine. And don't worry. You are in no danger. If you are afraid the biter had rabies-which he almost never has-use the same treatment but paint the wound with carbolic acid instead of iodine...