snake-bites

Then, later, to Bourbon Street, to hang with the boys and have a few snake-bites.

Weekend Update (and a place in heaven) barbylon 2002

Then, later, to Bourbon Street, to hang with the boys and have a few snake-bites.

Weekend Update (and a place in heaven) barbylon 2002

Every precious stone was supposed to exercise its own peculiar virtue; for instance, amber was regarded as a good remedy for throat troubles, and agate was thought to preserve from snake-bites.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

We lose lots of cattle from snake-bites -- those ugly rattlers!

The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences Frank V. Webster

At this moment, too, the local papers are full of recipes for the prevention and cure of snake-bites, public attention being much attracted to the subject on account of an Englishman having been bitten by a black "mamba" (a very venomous adder) a short time since, and having died of the wound in a few hours.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

[792] This Eudemus was a kind of sorcerer, who sold magic rings, to which, among other virtues, he ascribed that of curing, or rather of securing him who wore them, from snake-bites.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The American Indians learned most of their cures from watching animals, especially the cure of such diseases as fever, rheumatism, dysentery, and snake-bites.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

Again, the Greeks believed in a stone which cured snake-bites, and hence was named the snake-stone; to test its efficacy you had only to grind the stone to powder and sprinkle the powder on the wound.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Again, the Greeks believed in a stone which cured snake-bites, and hence was named the snake-stone; to test its efficacy you had only to grind the stone to powder and sprinkle the powder on the wound.

Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922

A sharp climb out on the opposite side and I plunged into rampant jungle, half expecting snake-bites on my exposed ankles -- another pre-conceived notion -- and at length falling into a narrow jungle trail that pitched down through a dense-grown gully, came upon a fenced compound with several Zone buildings on the banks of the Chagres, down to which sloped a broad green lawn.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921