Deacon Chas. W. Guilbert, furnishes the Galesburg Free Press the following cure for the bite of a rattlesnake.
    About 37 years ago I arrived in Galesburg. At that time there was a great many rattlesnakes. I used to kill thirty or forty every year. A few years after my arrival two little boys were bitten, and after suffering for several days they died. At that time I had four little boys and two girls and I felt very uneasy for fear they would get bit; I was very particular to have them wear high shoes and high boots. In the course of two years I had two very fine colts bit on their nose; I thought I would try spirits of turpentine. Their heads were swollen very large back to their shoulder; they could not suck; I rubbed them three times with my hand as far as the swelling extended, between the hours of six o’clock and midnight. In the morning the swelling was all gone. The next year I had one of my best cows bitten on the end of her nose and her head was swollen back to her shoulders so she could hardly breathe. I rubbed her thoroughly with spirits of turpentine as far as the swelling extended, with the palm of my hand three times between 5 o’clock in the evening and 12 c’clock at night, and the next morning the swelling was all gone. I have had several bitten and always cured them in the same way. The milk for two or three days should be thrown into the vaults as it is very poisonous.
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