06-08-2021, 02:51 PM
Good news, everyone. There is a cure for the bite from a tarantula. At least that's what it says in this pamphlet from 1881. Although it might come off as a bit snarky....
Over the Purple Hills Wrote:Fighting tarantulas is quite a pastime with some tourists; two or three of them are placed in close quarters and they will bite one another until both die of poison. The gratification of this amusement lies in the fact that they destroy each other. For a general thing their bite is little more thought of than the sting of a wasp, but persons in this State have been poisoned to death by their venom.
Whisky is the antidote; perhaps this is the reason that its bite is not feared much by the residents, a large proportion of the population being in a perpetual state to resist the bite of spiders or reptiles.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm