A Snake In Her Stomach

A SNAKE IN HER STOMACH

Treated with Drugs it Crawled Out of Her Mouth.

WAS OVER TWO FEET LONG

She Fell Exhausted When the Reptile Came Out--Chocked Her in The Act.

Enoch Sears, 415 S. Main st., has received a letter from his son who is a recent, graduate of the medical department and who is now practicing in Kalamazoo, in which he describes a most horrible case that came under his care.

Mrs. Albert Fisher, of Kalamazoo, was relieved of a water snake two feet four inches long that she had been carrying in her stomach for more than a year and a half. Friday she took a drug that rendered her unwelcome tenant very uneasy, and at 2 o'clock she felt the horrible creature crawling up the aesophagus into her mouth. Seizing it by the head, she pulled it partly out until the large part of the snake caught in the larynx and nearly choked her. Making a frantic effort, she grasped the snake firmly and jerked it out. She immediately fell in a faint and remained unconscious for hours.

The reptile, totally devoid of the sense of light, and having never learned to crawl, merely wound itself into coils on the floor, only to unwind itself in an aimless sort of way. It was finally killed and put into a bottle of alcohol, and will not be disposed of at any price.

Mrs. Fisher suffered terribly from fright and exhaustion and after her stomach was relieved of its horrible viper, she suffered terrible pains.

Mrs. Fisher's case is a peculiar one. About a year and a half ago she was traveling across the western plains with an emigrant party and on a hot day, when the party had gone a long time without water, they stopped by a small pool and Mrs. Fisher knelt down to drink. She was so thirsty that she did not stop to take a cup, but put her mouth down to the water and drank. She felt something enter her mouth and crawl down into her stomach. At first she believed it to be a worm, but later thought it must have been a small snake. She went on with the party, and when she came to a town informed a doctor of her condition, who tried to destroy the serpent with mild poisons. He did not succeed, however. The snake grew rapidly and caused Mrs. Fisher much pain at times by his movements, and she says she could even feel him bite the walls of her stomach.

Finally she went to Kalamazoo and has been under the care of Dr. Sears for the past two months. On his advice she ate very little and took drugs that experiments had proven were destructive to snakes.