Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Recent reports of unrecorded sea-monsters are more common than one would suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made...
...however, thought the mass meeting sufficient. The next day there was a parade to the field such as Boylston Street never saw; and the seething snake dance that returned after that last practice made the anxious shopkeepers look out of their doors and wonder if the Yale game had been advanced...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...