Snake-Bite Egg Remedy Although we may have a warm afternoon
or two to come, 1 think the adder' has already gone to spend the colder months in torpid state. It is therefore a little late to talk of snake-bite again, but a correspon- dent who spends much time in North Devon has written to say that snakes are by no means scarce there, and he has had dogs bitten on four occasions—two this summer. He was advised by a farmer to use white of duck's egg as a remedy and did so, remembering it as an old gipsy are. Making assurance doubly sure, he also used permanganate of potash and was, for this reason, unable to say whether white of egg was effective or not. My grandfather once used a great bowl of eggs to administer first aid to a scalded child. The old man broke the eggs and poured them over the child's face. When the dried mess was removed later, the skin was intact. It had been sealed from the air, and the boy's face was unblemished. 1 wonder what effect albumen is supposed to have on the venom of an adder.
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