Showing posts with label snake bites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snake bites. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 July 2012

How they used to treat snake bites!

From the Australian Town and Country Journal dated 2nd November, 1872:

Campbelltown. Wednesday. "Today, a man named Edward Barrett, while lifting a sheet of bark, was bitten in the finger by a black snake. After lacerating the wound, he galloped into town, a distance of three miles, where Mr. J. Egan sucked the wound, and accidentally swallowed some of the poison. Barnett is much better, but Mr. Egan is in a very dangerous state."

Snakes have a long history of terrorising Campbelltown folk. This one was caught around 1920 at Denham Court by Fred Asher and John McDonald.


Written by Andrew Allen