Word: moccasin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake...
...walls abnormally permeable to blood by simultaneously thinning the blood and capillary walls. Hemorrhage is due to wholesale escape of blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment...
...such persistent nosebleeders were Drs. Simon Back and Harry Lawrence Jaffe. Until they became internes in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital they bled practically every day. At Mount Sinai Hospital they encountered Dr. Samuel Mortimor Peck who was experimenting with the venom of deadly water moccasins. Moccasin venom contains an element, Dr. Peck had found, which dissolves the lining of capillaries which then permit blood to escape hemorrhagically. The same venom contains another converse element which toughens the walls of capillaries and blocks any such hemorrhage.* Dr. Peck isolated the antihemorrhagic substance, tried its effects on some animals, offered...
...last year Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium...
...from southern Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs...