Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
...discussing the danger of snake bites. Dr. do Amaral said. "The most poisonous snake in the western world is the bush master of Central America but the Florida rattlesnake is almost as deadly. Now that serums have been produced to safeguard against all snakebites, people must be educated to capture the poisonous reptiles and send them to the central institute where they can be made to give up their venom. Nonpoisonous snakes should not be killed but should be left alone as they are valuable in their combat against rodents...
...solution is injected into horses in successive increments. The reaction of this poison with the cells of the horse produces antibodies. After a lapse of time the horse is bled and the serum proteins are separated and purified. When this serum is injected into a person suffering from snake-bite it goes to the poison because it has a peculiar affinity for it. Then neutralization of the poison takes place but the injection of the antivenin must take place within 12 hours in order to insure safety...
...Amaral sketched a diagram showing the entire development and distribution of the serum and emphasized the fact that the serum produced is a mixture of antivenin produced from all species of snakes in the country, so that a single product can be shipped to all parts of North America. The institute at Glenolden, Pennsylvania, is the central one for the United States and Canada, but the snake farm in Brazil produces the largest amount of the serum...
Venom v. Epilepsy. When Dr. do Amaral reached Manhattan last week he had with him 40 South American snakes, present for Raymond Lee Ditmarks, curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park. Dr. Ditmarks fondly sorted the snakes. As he was doing so, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, retired Manhattan physician, visited him. Dr. Monaelesser was President McKinley's surgeon of the Red Cross during the Spanish-American War. Lately he has been doing private research on epilepsy. His visit to the zoo was for some venom of the black African cobra. Dr. Ditmarks has the only...