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Young Man's Life Saved by Serum from Male Cobra Berlin, Dec. 27.
Christmas stories sometimes come true.
A modern version has just happened.
A wealthy young Belgian was stricken, with illness at Brussels so that the doctors despaired of saving his life. When it appeared that all hope must be abandoned, the doctors called in a famous specialist who is a professor at Brussels university. The specialist decided to try using a special serum but needed poison taken. from a male cobra.
Telephone calls were immediately put through to all zoological gardens in Europe but a difficulty arose in that nobody seemed to know how to tell the sex of snakes, Finally the Berlin zoo reported that they knew of a dealer who had in his shop two cobras, of which he was sure which must be the male and which female.
Both were immediately sent by aeroplane to the professor at Brussels.
Thick fog prevented the plane getting further than Cologne but the two cobras were rushed on by train. The serum was obtained on Christmas Eve and injected into the sick man whose life was thereby saved.—Trans-Ocean,
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