Posted on 02/19/2020 6:54:38 AM PST by Red Badger
Cool!
“This new science amazes me, Sir Bedevere! Tell me again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.”
One bite and you don’t have to worry about cancer OR taxes anymore.
Some of us are hoping for a cure in our lifetime...
Professor Smith to Professor Jones - "How are we going to extract the snake venom we need?"
Professor Jones - "I know! Let's have the students do it. There's always plenty of them."
>>One bite and you don’t have to worry about cancer OR taxes anymore.<<
Yes, but if you’re a Democrat, you’ll still be able to vote.
Killing the cancer with venom isn’t hard. It’s not killing the patient at the same time that’s the challenge.
Makes sense. Some venoms are cytotoxic attacking blood and tissue. If they can be targeted at specific cancers that would be awesome.
Well, Dr. McCoy used a Klingon nerve agent to help the Enterprise crew in the TOS episode “The Tholian Web”.
The Reptile Gardens in the Black Hills could become a Cancer Treatment Center!
and so will the snake!
The patient will die anyways, so go for it!.............
California will post a warning label on it claiming it causes cancer.
I always chuckled that someday God would show man when Man’s heart is humble enough, that the cure for cancer has been right in front of him - like from poison ivy - i.e., confounding the ‘wise’. Snake venom is a better example of that.
Maybe He was eluding to it when He had Moses lift up the image of the snake as a method of healing.
Still wondering...
I'd hate to have to extract it.
I hope the secured facility is seriously secured. I'd hate for those things to escape and reproduce. The Florida python problem is bad enough.
I believe snake venom can relieve breathing...
Student to 911: I’ve lost a very poisonous snake and I don’t know where it is!
[scream in the background]
I know where the snake is!.................
Some of us are hoping for a cure in our lifetime...
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Some cancers are already cured. The overall survival rate is a lot better than it used to be.
“From rattlesnakes to vipers...”
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Probably “getting in the weeds” here; but, rattlesnakes are pit vipers (Crotalinae); which are part of the viper family (Viperidae); so, the statement is, at best, redundant.
The use of snake and other venoms for treating diseases of various types is not new. I remember back in the early 1960’s I had an aunt who was being treated for hypertension w/a medication derived from a type of cobra venom.
Interesting article; though, thanks!
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