Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man— “Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can; I intend to let him bite me, all the risk I will endure, Just to prove the sterling…
Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man—
“Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can;
I intend to let him bite me, all the risk I will endure,
Just to prove the sterling value of my wondrous snakebite cure.”
–Banjo Paterson, “Johnson’s Antidote”
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Brisbane really feels like a river city around here. And the brown snake has a tendency to swallow you up.
Zach St. George explores the wild scams of Australia’s snake venom con men. | Lit Hub History How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob…
By the time he arrived at the hospital, the man’s tongue had gone numb and he was struggling to breathe
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Snake catchers on an Australian island were initially surprised when they were called to capture a venomous snake hundreds of…
