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April 21, 1991
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The following is a summation and series of quotes from a two part
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article that appeared in OUTDOOR LIFE magazine. The name of the
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article is "A Shock Cure for Snakebite" and was written by Larry
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Mueller. Part 1 of the article was in the June 1988 issue and Part 2
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was in the July 1988 issue.
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Back issues of OUTDOOR LIFE can be purchased by writing OUTDOOR
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LIFE, Back Issue Department, P.O. Box 54733, Boulder, CO 80233.
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copy of the article. They will do this free of charge but you may
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A SHOCK CURE FOR SNAKEBITE
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Part 1
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The first part of the article tells several stories of cases where
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high voltage DC was used to treat snakebites. In the first case,
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Dr. Daryl Neans, a veterinarian of Pflugerville, Texas, tells the
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story of a rancher who brought in a dog that was bitten on the face
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by a rattlesnake 30 minutes earlier.
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The dog's face had started swelling and because Dr. Neans had
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previously read an OUTDOOR LIFE article about the treatment, he
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connected a wire to one of the spark plug wires of his truck then
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grounded another one to the frame and used the two wires to shock
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the "dog's face half a dozen times around the bites."
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The treatment seemed to relieve the dog's pain, but "for insurance,
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Dr. Neans had followed the shock treatment with the usual cortisone,
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antibiotics, and tetanus antitoxin, but he's convinced that the
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shock had already effected the cure."
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The article explains why Dr. Neans believes in the cure:
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"Body tissue is negatively charged, snake venom is slightly
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positive, and unlike charges attract. If ionization of the
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venom molecules is altered by electrical shock, he reasoned,
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perhaps they can't attach themselves to animal tissue and
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destroy it."
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Part 1
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Dr. Markus Kryger had read about the treatment in a medical journal
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when he opted to use it on courthouse employee in southwestern
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Missouri who was bitten by a copperhead just outside the courthouse.
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He used jumper cables attached to the spark coil of his car to treat
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the wound after giving the woman a tetanus shot and disinfecting the
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bite. "Within the hour, the puzzled patient was back at work."
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Dr. Kryger became convinced that electrical shock could deactivate
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snake venom because of the chemistry of the poison. Besides
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proteins and enzymes, venom contains copper and other trace metals
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whose electrical properties could be easily upset by high-voltage
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shock, thereby possibly uncoupling what makes the venom work.
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Dr. Ronald Guderian is a missionary doctor from Seattle who is given
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credit for being the first to use high voltage DC to treat
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snakebite. He has "successfully treated more than 60 cases in the
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Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador."
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Based on Dr. Guderian's experience it seems that if the treatment is
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received within 15 to 20 minutes after the bite has been inflicted
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then the pain stops almost immediately and no swelling will occur.
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If swelling has already started, then it stops and the pain soon
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subsides. Dr. Guderian typically uses a Nova Technologies stun gun
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with one of the electrodes modified so that the current can be
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passed directly through the limb by placing an electrode on each
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side.
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"All of the successful treatments have been performed
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with 20,000 to 25,000 volts or more." It has to be DC voltage, too.
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The article expresses a concern that someone with a pacemaker might
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be killed if they were shocked with the voltage from and ignition
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system. The frequency and duration of the pulses of an ignition
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system, it is feared, might scramble a pacemaker. "The only
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medically tested shocking device that is safe for almost all people,
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including those with heart pacemakers, is the Stun Gun, made by Nova
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Technologies (2207 Braker Lane, Austin, TX 78758, 512-832-5591)."
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"NO ONE HAS EVER USED ELECTRIC SHOCK TO TREAT SNAKEBITE INFLICTED BY
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SNAKES WHOSE VENOM ATTACKS THE NERVOUS SYSTEM." (ex. cobra) "The
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only venomous snake of this kind in the United States is the coral
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snake."
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The article warns that the high voltage DC shock would not be
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effective against the neurotoxins in the venom of snakes such as the
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cobra and coral snakes.
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Dr. Guderian's success has been with using the Stun Gun made by Nova
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Technologies. The FDA won't let Nova advertise the stun gun as a
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treatment against snakebite until further testing has been achieved.
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There has been some trouble with reproducing the effect of the
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treatment in the laboratory. It has been proposed that the reason
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that the treatment has not worked in the laboratory is because those
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who were doing the testing were using one of the many imitation stun
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guns imported to the US from Taiwan or South Korea.
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Another factor in why the treatment does not work in the laboratory
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is that, in the laboratory, it is tested on small animals. In the
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words of Dr. Guderian, "Think about it. Snake venom evolved for the
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purpose of quickly killing prey. Humans are not snake prey: we
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just get in the way some times. There may be biological differences
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causing small animals to be more susceptible than humans to venom.
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Or it may just be a matter of our much larger size. ....When a
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small animal is snakebitten, all of it's biological systems shut
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down so fast that nothing can be done to stop it. When a human is
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bitten, he has a local reaction, followed by pain, swelling, and
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possible death perhaps 24 hours later."
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The Japanese have reported to Dr. Guderian "that his shock treatment
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works on people bitten by their venomous snakes." He has also
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received letters telling of success stories in Peru, Columbia,
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Argentina, New Guinea and Africa.
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As an explanation for why the treatment works, the article cites a
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Texas chemist who suspects that electro-phoresis is taking place.
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In electro-phoresis a high DC voltage is applied to a substance to
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dissociate the compounds in that substance.
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"Snake venom is a complex combination of proteins, enzymes
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(which are proteins with biological activity) and metal
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ions....The positively charged proteins travel toward the
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negative terminal, and the negatively charged proteins
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migrate toward the positive connection....The chemist
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suggested that high-voltage shock would cause enough
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separation to render the venom inactive."
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A SHOCKING CURE FOR SNAKEBITE
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PART 2
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This second part of the article opens by describing the experience
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of Jim Scroggins, vice-president of Nova Technologies, when he took
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a trip to Ecuador for the purpose of verifying the incredible claims
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being made by Dr. Ronald Guderian in regards to the ability of the
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Nova Stun Gun to treat snakebite.
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On a hike through the jungle to visit an indian village, Jim was
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bitten on the arm by a conga ant. The conga ant's "venom can cause
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a limb to swell so badly that it can't be used for days."
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Jim claimed the bite felt like "five wasp stings in the same spot."
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He shocked the wound with a stun gun and "within 30 to 60 seconds
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the pain was gone."
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Even though conga ant bites are supposed to swell the whole limb,
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Jim had no swelling, only a discolored area the diameter of a
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baseball.
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Dr. Guderian began the high voltage DC shock treatment, not on
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snakebites, but originally on stings and bites from scorpions, ants,
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bees, wasps, and other kinds of insects.
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In the beginning he used the ignition systems of outboard motors and
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chainsaws to treat the stings, but he later was sent a portable,
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battery powered "buzzer-and-coil" setup from a friend in Indiana.
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Later on the same friend sent him several Stun Guns to try out.
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While Jim Scroggins was in Ecuador, a girl was stung on the toe by a
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scorpion and given the shock treatment with a stun gun. After a few
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minutes the pain was gone and the girl left the emergency room.
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After Scroggins got home from his trip to Ecuador, his wife was
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working in the yard when she was bitten on the hand by four fire
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ants. "Donna starts getting a reaction to just one fire-ant bite in
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about five minutes. Then, she goes into anaphylactic shock and
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can't breathe."
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In the rush to go to the hospital, the Scroggins took time to treat
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the hand with "two quick half-second zaps" from a Nova Technologies
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Stun Gun.
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On the way to the hospital, the pain had stopped, so they turned
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around and went home. "There was little or no swelling, perhaps one
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third of what she usually gets from a single bite."
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Dr. Guderian has found out through various sources that shocks have
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been used to treat scorpion stings for years in places like India.
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40 years ago, people in Nigeria who were stung by scorpions were
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commonly shocked with the ignition system of a motorcycle.
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High voltage DC can be used to treat other things as well. While in
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the city of Esmeraldas, Dr. Guderian had the opportunity to treat a
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child who had been stung on the back by a stingray.
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He used a wire connected to an automobile's ignition coil and 20
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minutes after the treatment the child was back in the water again
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playing as if nothing had happened.
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A Dr. Stoddard talked to by OUTDOOR LIFE points out that bacteria,
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like venom, is largely protein. So are viruses. In Europe, acne is
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being treated with electricity.
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Dr. Guderian has treated boils with high voltage DC. According
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to him, if a boil is treated before it comes to a head, the swelling
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and reddness will be gone in three to four days.
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Dr. Stoddard even suggests that in the future rabies may be treated
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with electric shock.
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Dr. Guderian is amazed at how well the shock treatment works to
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relieve pain. He suspects that the pain deactivation process is
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separate from the deactivation of the poison.
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The article tells the story of a Texas woman who suffers from severe
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migraine headaches and voluteered to be treated with a stun gun.
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She was shocked on the back of the neck and once on each side. The
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pain went away, but in the morning it was back, only this time much
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weaker. The process was repeated again and the pain totally
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vanished.
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Part 4
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It is proposed in the article that, "the same high voltage shock
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that upsets the electrical charge of venom proteins may upset the
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charges in body proteins that signal pain to our brains."
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Submitted to KeelyNet by Michael McQuay
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