Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — Poisoned by a Rabbit Bite. [ARTICLE]

Poisoned by a Rabbit Bite.

A man living on Horse creek, Cal., was bitten by a rabbit in Septemi e , from the effects of which he almost lost his life. He was trying to catch the rabbit for his little boy, when the animal bit him on the tuurub, but he took little notice of it at the time. About an hour afterward his thumb began to pain him severely and swelled rapidly, so that he called a physician,’ who thought he must have beeu bitten by a rattlesnake. The doctor ’at first could net believe that it was the bite <>f a rabbit that caused the trouble; so, to fully satisfy himself, he had several rabbits caught, with which he experimented. He found that the upper jaw contained a hollow tooth; from which he extracted a very poisonous fluid. He ascertained that two drops of this blood administered to a lamb would kill it in les« than an hour.