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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] electric shock for bites
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:03:39 -0500

The article I posted was serious, too. There was talk about including stun guns in survival or first aid kits for military personnel. It, too, said there was no scientific explanation.(Again, dated 1986)
Venom is made of proteins, which are amino acids. It makes sense to me that perhaps the electricity infers with the ionic bonds in the acids. I don't know any other explanation..it's probably an oversimplification, but if the acids are destroyed, the proteins are destroyed and the venom is thereby neutralized.

B

Rob wrote:
At 11/12/2008 08:17 PM,EarthNSky wrote:


Does anyone have any experience with this shock treatment stuff? Lynn?
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Maybe 12 years ago there was a long article using shock to treat snake bites in "Field and Stream" or one of the outdoor magazines. This was a serious article.
I read the article in 96 or 97 as I recall. I did read it while I was still in the CG and I think I was in Michigan at the time.

It worked in the field with a natural bite but they could not duplicate it in the lab with laboratory venom.
Lot's of volts, think of using the car's coil for the spark, 60k or so?




Rob
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