Frances B. Holstein, 24, child’s nurse, saved Benjamen W. Soper, 46, clergyman, from death from snakebite, Cocoanut Grove, Florida, February 19, 1918. Soper stepped on a rattlesnake in a jungle, and the snake struck him, its fangs entering his left leg on the outside four inches above the ankle. A man then killed the snake. A tourniquet was at once applied to Soper’s leg, cuts were made over the wound, causing a flow of blood, and Miss Holstein, after Soper had protested, sucked the venom from the wound for about five minutes. Soper became very ill and was disabled four weeks. Miss Holstein was not affected. 18731-1462
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