The part of man's body which is healed by a particular herb, or the animal whose bites or stings can be cured by it, are represented in the same wood-cut as the herb.
Figures of the animals whose bites or stings were supposed to be cured by the use of a particular herb, were often introduced into the drawing, as in the case of the Plantain (Text-fig.
The signature in some cases represents an animal injurious to man, and is taken to denote that the plant in question will cure its bites or stings.
They are especially noted for their power of curing snake-bites by means of mystical incantations, and the original inventor of this mode of treatment has been deified under the name Pambalamman.
The Bagrus tribe is then plentiful, and, as it bites readily, large numbers are captured.
In the great American inland sea of those days swam one kind of fierce fish-lizard that took such big bites he had to have a hinge in his jaw.
But you know a body doesn't have much of an appetite when he doesn't get any outdoor exercise, and that's why the chipmunks only take a few bites now and then, during the Winter.
In each of the countries in which venomous bites represent an important cause of mortality in the case of human beings and domestic animals, special laboratories have been officially organised for the preparation of antivenomous serum.
Even in France we are acquainted with professional viper-catchers, who employ the method of graduated inoculations in order to render themselves immune to the bites of indigenous reptiles.
A few notes and observations relating to bites of poisonous snakes treated by antivenomous serum- therapeutics 326 II.
This is the second instance within four months of the successful treatment of snake-bites at Saigon by Calmette’s serum.
I regularly weighed the dry residue from eleven bites made on a watch-glass by two Naja haje, received at my laboratory from Egypt at the same time, and placed in the same case.
The injection of the serum and the dressing of the wound should be performed as in the case of poisonous bites in human beings.
In Australia, especially in New South Wales and farther to the north, fatalities due to the bites of poisonous snakes are not rare.
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He found another cause of insomnia than the bites of mosquitoes; but against this one, senores, tumblers of raw brandy had no more effect than so much water.
Then the dog dragged himself back, covered with bites and scratches, to be rewarded and petted by his master.
Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with his teeth a plant full of blossoms, and walk along munching it, the flowers nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.
It is conveyed in this way: the mosquito bites a yellow fever patient; for twelve days it is harmless, but after that time it may infect every person that it bites.
As the shining steel bites into the wood the noise almost deafens you and the mill shakes with the thunder of log-carriage and feeders.
You'd die a-laughing at the way they set up and scratch their ears when a big, black ant bites 'em, Buck.
And it'll be a long, cold day when another bunch of greenhorns bites on any colony scheme.
Miss Cassandra, "and give us time to think, but I am quite sure that it was Beau Brummel who made three bites of a cherry, or a strawberry, or some other small fruit.
Lut'er not to be outdone takes a battered plug of tobacco from his pocket and bites of an unlimited "chaw.
From time to time he bites appreciatively on a ham sandwich as he looks about him, apparently viewing the room for the first time.
She takes up a chocolate cream andbites off half of it.
A preparation of the guaco plant is highly esteemed on the Spanish main as an antidote against bites of snakes of all kinds.
In the Cape colony an antidote for snake-bites is sold under the name of Croft's Tincture of Life.
The bit of sapphire from the case may also be called into use, and if the stone you have found is of white colour, and a corner of your sapphire bites or scratches it, there is no hope of its being a diamond.
If that dog bites me again, I'll sue you and Potts as sure as my name's Tompkins.
The hired girl went down once after the cold beef, and came up disheveled and bleeding, with a number of appalling dog-bites in her legs, and I descended immediately afterward for the purpose of pacifying the infuriated animal.
And Bill tole me that once when a man came around there trying to sell lightning-rods his father got mad and et him--et him right up; and he takes bites out of everybody he comes acrost.
So when he bites you, a suit won't lie against Potts, and the only thing you can do to obtain justice is to make the dog bite Potts also.
It was a cold job and more frost-bites occurred in two of our novices, one on a foot and the other on a finger.
Some of the rolls showed the impression of bites given to them in 1909.
There are some Indian medicine-men who, with similar enchantment, are supposed to cure the bites or stings of snakes, especially of the rattlesnakes, of which there are a great many here.
The victims of such bites are sometimes delirious, and often the flesh around the wound will decay until they die.
Teddy, holding out his slice, which had three bites and a half taken from it.
What Ted took were really nibbles alongside the bites the man took.
They had each taken about three bites from the nice, big slices Nora had given them, when around the back walk came a man who was limping on one leg, the other being of wood.
It seizes its antagonist's hand, carries it to its own mouth, andbites at the fingers.
A bear pierces or tears an antagonist with his canines, but very rarely bites off anything.
The fighting ape always reaches out, seizes the arm or wrist of the person to be harmed, drags it up to his mouth and bites savagely.
An orang-utan bites off a finger as evenly as a boy nips off the end of a stick of candy.
This seems very strange, for the bites of lions, tigers and leopards very frequently end in blood poisoning, incurable fever and death.
Blotches like flea-bites appear in many localities, sometimes all over the body, are sore to the touch and are multiplied by scratching.
Latrodectus have the power to inflict poisonous bites which may (probably exceptionally and depending upon exceptional conditions) bring about the death of a human being.
Spider bites are of rare occurrence in this vicinity, but are generally productive of grave symptoms.
The bites of the mites greatly irritate the skin, and the animal scratches, bites and rubs the part in its effort to relieve the intense itching.
The animal rubs against the stall, fences and trees, and bites the skin in its efforts to relieve the irritation.
Bites and bruises to the withers resulting from other horses taking hold of the region with the teeth, or striking the part against a hard surface, are frequent causes.
A Roman," he murmured placidly to himself, between two large bites of toast.
For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bites me and gnaws me like a burning worm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
