Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholar & Snake. The election made good the promise of Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi, 31, who has called for a national reconciliation with the deceptively simple slogan: "Pacification with persuasion." A mild Oxford scholar, Sadik last July replaced Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, who chose to discourage the rebellious Anya Nya (named for the poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi...
...spats and two dimes in his pocket. He managed to land a job on the Chicago Daily News as an assistant to Ben Hecht. Hecht was a raffish columnist (and later a playwright) who used Luce as a legman to supply suggestions and information about such people as snake charmers and blind violinists. Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator one day. The M.E. looked him over head to toe, then said with withering scorn...
Miami's Dr. Clifford C. Snyder got interested in the toxicology of snake venoms after his prized dog died of a rattlesnake bite. In the laboratory he extracted snake venom, purified it, laced it with radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective...
...simple surgery on 32 patients, five bitten by cottonmouth moccasins and 27 by rattlesnakes. All have recovered. Obviously, excising a piece of flesh up to the size of a silver dollar is not practical in the head and neck region, Dr. Snyder concedes in the A.M.A. Journal, but most snake bites are on the hands, arms and legs...
Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...