En route to Troy he was incapacitated by a snakebite, and he was left behind on the island of Lemnos.
Several species of poisonous snakes abound, including black, brown, and tiger snakes and the death adder; they are not aggressive, however, and loss of human life to snakebite is rare.
Agrimonia eupatoria (common agrimony) from Europe was looked upon in past ages as a general cure for any sort of wound or snakebite and for wart removal, liver ailments, and diarrhea.
American dittany is found in dry woodlands and prairies of the eastern United States and was once used as a remedy for fever and snakebite.
In later times his status was gradually reduced, until he was credited with having been an earthly king who died of snakebite.
The plant is poisonous, but an extract from it has been used in the past to facilitate childbirth (hence the name) and in the treatment of snakebite.
Although snakebite mortality worldwide is estimated at 30,000 40,000 people per year, the majority of deaths (25,000 35,000) occur in Southeast Asia, principally because of poor medical treatment, malnutrition of victims, and a large number of venomous species.
It is a major cause of snakebite deaths within its range because it often exists in farmlands where human contact and rodent prey are abundant.
Over the next 24 hours, he documented episodes of nausea, fever and chills, and bleeding from the mucous membranes in his mouth and nose before he died from respiration paralysis and a brain hemorrhage brought on by the snakebite.
They have smooth scales, flat-sided (coffin-shaped) heads, long front fangs, and a powerful neurotoxic venom (see snakebite).
Should I ever be in Jilly's Rock World, I will buy you a snakebite and black.
