Question

How to treat a rattlesnake bite in the 1800s?

Answer 1

Frontiersmen often believed that putting gunpowder on the wound and setting it alight would burn the venom out. More common ways were to cut out the wound (and hopefully the venom), or to drink copious amounts of whiskey to counteract it, but in reality it only sped up the distribution and absorption of the venom.

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