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...anyone wants to know how to milk rattlesnakes, or how they taste French-fried, or whether their rattle is a love call, the place to find the answers is a monstrous (1,500 pp.) book called Rattlesnakes, published last week by Laurence M. Klauber (University of California Press; $17.50). The book covers rattlesnakes from A (Crotalus viridis abyssus) to Z (Crotalus zetazomae...
Milking rattlesnakes of their venom is relatively easy. During his 35 years as consulting curator of reptiles at the San Diego Zoo, Klauber milked 5,171 of them by opening their mouths with a metal claw, hooking their fangs over the edge of a cup and pressing out the contents of their poison glands. The venom, he says, is almost odorless. Its taste is first astringent, then turns sweetish. It makes the lips tingle a little...
Ethereal Delights. Rattlesnake venom, says Klauber, has, at various times, been considered a cure for epilepsy, bronchitis, pneumonia, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, cholera, yellow fever, leprosy and elephantiasis. Pills made out of the poison glands ground up and mixed with cheese were once prescribed for palsy and typhus; they also give a feeling of "ethereal delights." Rattlesnake oil was once a popular remedy, too, but both venom and oil have now fallen out of medical favor. The chief modern use for the venom is to immunize horses so their serum can be used to cure rattlesnake bites...
PHILIP M. KLAUBER Sports Editor...
...youthful President William Samuel Paley, honeymooning at Honolulu with his bride, the former Mrs. John Hearst, was notified of the decision. Straightway flashed a cable from President Paley to his First Vice President Edward Klauber in Manhattan. Said President Paley in effect: "Big political news will be breaking before November. Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October. National issues will loom large in the public eye. Let CBS augment its facilities for reporting that news by presenting 'The March of Time' two months earlier as a sustaining feature entirely at its own expense...