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263. Snake bite kit.

If this is correct, you Americans (and Australians) have an edge over
us Europeans. Snake bites are not uncommon, but I have never heard of
such kits and I don't think that our kind of venomous snake bites
can be healed by such kits. (There is this story of an American
tourist in Norway who slept out in Oslo during a hot summer day.
Suddenly he woke discovering a snake on his body. His shock scared
the snake who stroke and bit the tourist. Being an enlightened
American, he immediately tried to catch the snake so that the first
aid team could invoke correct treatment given what kind of poison this
particular snake used. A short fight followed during which our
tourist was bit by the snake once more. But he managed to kill it,
took it with him and called for help. Down at the hospital (with
pains) he showed the snake. Startled nurses and doctors stared at the
snake. He explained, but got the answer "We have only one venomous
serpent in Norway, the viper." (Anyway, painful as its poison is, it
is not deadly.))

Anyway, why the small knife?

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway,
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92