Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address of Retiring President, Dr. E M. Whitten: Delivered at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Nebraska State Medical Society, at Nebraska City, June 3d, 1879
The following was recommended for the bite of snakes or rabid animals: 'take the secundines of a woman of sanguine complexion, brought to bed of her first child, being a boy, dried and cleansed from the membranes, an ounce; roots of white peony, and seed of the same, of each half an ounce; shavings of a man's skull, put to a violent death, shavings ofa unicorn's horn, hoof of an elk, mistle toe of the oak, roots of wild valerian and swallow-wort, of each three drams; pearls and coral prepared, contrayerva stone, white amber and seed of goat's rue, each two drams; oriental musk and ambergris, of each one scruple; mingle them and make a powder for use.'
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