The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 182
eyfind a dead serpent, they dress it inclothes and give it a superb funeral. Some one has discovered that theleaves of a bitter aromatic plant, Aristo-lochia Indica, if bruised into a pulp,mixed with a little water, and swallowed,will often cure the bite of the Indiancobra. It has been known to… … THE HOODED COBRA. struck. This seems to show that the snakes havea highly sensitive nervous organization. TheEast-Indians say that this snake used to haveseven heads, though now it has only one, and thatits hood is the remnant of the other six. The cobra of Africa is regarded somewhat dif-ferently…
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