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Curious Result Of Adder’s Bite.

Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 4, 1913

As the result of an adder bite, recently, the back of the hand of a Cardiff [Wales] boy named J. W. Coffy has become marked like an adder. The physician who was attending the case states that the skin and swollen flesh near the bite are like a piece of leather, pigmented exactly the same as an adder, the white streak or ring running round the dark mottled ground.

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