I recently got (bought) this postcard, wanted to show it off. It is labeled "Treatment of snakebite". The middle finger is "place bitten", just below the elbow is "Tourniquet was place here", and underneath "40 incisions made in forearm". You can see the rubber bulbs for sucking out the poison, as they said. The bottom right corner reads "Ross Allen 1941". To be bitten is bad, to have been bitten then was worse! This is the first postcard of a snakebite I've seen.
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"Treatment of snakebite" postcard
viandy
Jul 11, 2008 08:29 PM
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keown
Jul 11, 2008 09:16 PM
Yes, that was the medical protocol of the day back then.
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Gerald Keown
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
www.southwesternherp.com
Trolligans
Jul 14, 2008 08:07 AM
WOW! That looks pleasant. I wonder how effective the treatment is.
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