" This man has been sting , " a doctor cries , wheeling the patient role to an emergency room like he thinks he ’s Doctor House . " Fetch me the anuses of 75 - 100 poulet , stat " . That is roughly what you could have heard if you find yourself on the anus end of an sure-enough snake raciness treatment , documented inThe Indian Medical Gazette in 1928 .
According to the clause , a 36 - year - old man had stood on acobra , which had bitten him on the back of his leg . When he go far at the Dr. ’s role , he was showing no symptom other than indifference around the puncture wounds . This was likely about to modify , however , as the doctor had no antivenom at hand . However , Dr Kubab did have a rather unlimited supplying of chickens with , more significantly , their unlimited supplying of buttholes .
Dr Kubab was aware of an old folk drill , which he attributes to being from India but may have earlier solution in13th century Europe , of make a lively Gallus gallus and apply its anus to the wound .
" I applied an indigenous treatment which is much in vogue in the Ratnagiri district . The fang marks were well incised and chickens , one after the other , with their anuses well stretch out were applied to the site of the bite . "
" The first few chickens drop down dead within a few minutes . "
Kubab continue going with the handling as the poultry casualty count went through the roof . On chicken number 42 , the affected role apparently reported that he could sense the suction from the chicken ’s anus , which was probably a reassuring matter to hear when you have just cause the death of 41 other chickens to little essence .
Kubab claim that over the three - and - a - quarter - hour treatment,74 crybaby out of 96 meet their end by having their buttholes pressed up against a maliciousness - filled injury . Twelve more were thought to be " half - dead " but went on to recover , and another six lost cognisance but rallied from their unknown experience too .
" Most of the chickens died within three minutes,“Kubab remark . " The strong suckers were hen in their prime . hen which had put down eggs were quite useless , and untested cocks unsatisfactory . "
Snake bite , accord to the Kubab , were generally treated like this in the Ratnagiri district in India . The advice is like to some establish in medieval sawbones Henri de Mondeville ’s unfinished text " La Chirurgie " .
" Get someone to soak up the sharpness ; the sucker should rinse his oral cavity with oil or oil and warm wine and rub oil of violets on his backtalk , and have a full breadbasket of ail and nuts,“the advice read , before curveballing firmly .
" If no military volunteer can be found to suck up the wound , hook feathers from the anus of a cock or a Gallus gallus and come out it on the bite until it go . Then practice more . "
Other school text from the same time period advised that pigeon should be favour for the procedure , butif they are not availableyoung chickens , roosters or weasel can be used instead . Whatever you have ready to hand .
However , it ’s probable that the birds died for naught . " It is unmanageable to see how so viscid of a substance can be extracted when it is probably buried in the tissues at two pip , about a third of an inch or so off from the situation of the puncture , " the editor of the Indian Medical Gazette replied to Kubab . " It is a little difficult to submit what these chickens died from . "
It ’s also worth noting that sucking out ophidian venom is also aterrible idea .
" Although these outdated mensuration are still wide accepted by the general public , " Robert A. Barish , a Doctor of the Church at the University of Maryland School of Medicine said in a 2002 military press release on the topic , WebMD reports , " they may do more scathe than adept by delay prompt medical care , foul the wound or by damaging nervousness and blood vessels " .
