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Book - Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book and Medical Advisor or Information for Everbody by A.W. Chase M.D. page 135, 1920.
The National Intelligencer a year or two since published a recipe for the cure of the rattlesnake bite, which it claimed was infallible, it having been tried in a number of cases and always with success. It was nothing more nor less than the use of whisky, as above recommended, and it is but justice to say that a daughter of William Reed, of the town of Pittsfield, in this county, who was bitten on the arm some three years ago, was cured by drinking whisky until drunkenness and stupor were produced, and she has never felt any inconvenience from the bite since, which goes to show that the bite of the Devil's tea is worse than the bite of a rattlesnake
