As a medicinal herb, lilies were said to treat burns, snakebite and even leprosy. |
But he himself had no idea of dying of hunger, fever, or snakebite in this impenetrable wilderness. |
Equine-derived antivenin to snake venom has been the mainstay of hospital treatment for venomous snakebite for 35 years. |
Mr Beighton says that deaths from snakebite are singularly common in the subdivision. |
Diapedesis is now supposed to be the result of blood pressure, but it occurs in snakebite, where blood pressure is at zero. |
Thanks to the widespread availability of effective antivenins, snakebite fatalities in Australia have become rare in recent decades. |