To the Printer of the Gazette.

I have given thee some Information, a good while since, of that excellent Discovery, that hath been found out amongst us, for to cure the Bite of a Rattle-Snake: It hath now been practised by several Persons, and it never hath failed, but performed the Cure to Admiration. It would be well to publish it for the Good of Mankind.

The Cure is thus: Take of common Salt, powder it fine, and rub it with your Fingers over and into the Wound; if you scarrify the Skin with the Edge or sharp Point of a Knife or Needle, near the Wound, ’twould do much good, and bind some Quantity of Salt to the Sore. It giveth speedy Ease, draweth the poysonous Matter away in large Quantities, and destroyeth the Nature and Effects of the Poyson.