People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Poisonous Serpents. [ARTICLE]

Poisonous Serpents.

All poisonous serpents have movable fangs, which are found in the upper jaw. and wheu not in use close up like the blade of a penknife. The fang is provided with a duct leading to the poison sao, and the virus is ejected through this duct by pressure. At the base of every poison fang there are numerous germs of others, and the fang broken or lost is replaced in a few weeks by the growth of another.