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Last week the man at present most active in the world for snake poison research debarked at Manhattan. He was Dr. Afranio do Amaral, the soft-voiced suave herpetologist. He came from Brazil† where he is director of the Institute Sorotherapico at Butantan, State of Sao Paulo. His mission was to give a talk or two at Harvard's School of Public Health, where he is formally a lecturer, and to confer with Mulford's President Milton Campbell, his good friend and supporter. Dr. do Amaral is consulting director of Mulford's Antivenin Institute of America...
Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...
...famed curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'Reilly, William O. McGeehan) thought the Butantan biologist bigoted; suspected him of prohibition interests...
...Union this evening at 8 o'clock, Dr. Afranio Amaral will be the principal speaker. His lecture, which will be open to members of the University, will deal with "The Campaign Against Snake Poisoning in Brazil--An Account of the Work of the Serum Therapeutic Institute of Butantan Lao Paulo." Dr. Amaral will illustrate his talk with slides made from pictures taken in Brazil...
...Afranio Amaral of the Instituto Soroterapico, "Butantan", of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will speak on "The Treatment of Snake-bite" this afternoon at 4.45 before the Biological Club in Room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe...