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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 12/31/2006, you wrote:
> #)If you have a true scorpion ploblem,; get a cat!
> I won't try to explain; but talk to any long-time
> resident of the desert.

We had a friend with a severe scorpion problem.  After a year of fighting 
them in everything they got a couple of cats and in only a few months they 
no longer found scorpions in the house.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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At  12/31/2006 12:25 PM,clhw wrote:


> I was a skeptic until I had a wasp nail me between the first and second
> finger on my right hand. Being a coward when it comes to electrical shock,
> I had my husband do the zapping. It was amazing to feel the pain reducing
> and the swelling going away. No residual discoloration or swelling.
>
> We learned about this method from hearing about a missionary to the Amazon
> who was bitten by a usually fatal pit viper but survived after being
> shocked by the boat battery. Some medical people will tell you this is not
> a good way to treat a sting and not always effective. In our family,
> though, it beats an expensive ER trip, and is quick.

Some years back I read a series on this topic in an outdoors 
magazine.  Many stories about people who used high voltage (the coil 
from an automobile comes to mind) to overcome snake bites of various species.
As part of that article they covered the testing in the lab where it 
was determined not to work. The point was made that in the lab they 
used canned venom rather than fresh and that fresh venom had a 
different molecular arraignment.
The part I got from the whole thing was that in real life, miles and 
hours from any help the shock treatment did work.



Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA