Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — Snake Poison for Epilepsy. [ARTICLE]

Snake Poison for Epilepsy.

New York. —Rattlesnake venom as a cure for epilepsy is being tested by New York and Philadelphia surgeons. Preliminary reports show that the venom has resulted in marked benefit to all the patients treated. The venom treatment was discovered accidentally, as a result of a snake bite suffered by an epileptic in Texas. “The venom, when given hypodermically," says Dr. Ralph Spangler, “makes a profound lmpreslon on the nervous system."