| Dogbane is used in folk medicine as a diuretic, insecticide, and cardiac tonic, and for the treatment of haemorrhoids, epilepsy, eczema, and snakebite. |
| The reaction to coral snakebite is usually delayed-sometimes up to several hours. |
| Its most important characteristic is the power to extract the poisoned blood out of the snakebite wound. |
| Thanks to the widespread availability of effective antivenins, snakebite fatalities in Australia have become rare in recent decades. |
| But he himself had no idea of dying of hunger, fever, or snakebite in this impenetrable wilderness. |
| Mr Beighton says that deaths from snakebite are singularly common in the subdivision. |
