1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Chandu Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3Demonstrator, Department of Forensic Medicine, Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha, Hisar, Haryana, India
*Corresponding Author Dr Mohit Chauhan M.B.B.S., M.D., D.H.M. Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Chandu Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, India Email: maahi474@gmail.com
Online published on 30 August, 2019.
Unusual and intriguing snake bite features have fascinated people for thousand years. Snake bite poisoning is not a medical enigma. Yet, deep rooted social, religious and economic issues or lack of adequate and appropriate medical aid have curbed usage of scientific and specifically effective anti-venom therapy in many ways. Even salvageable cases visit traditional faith healer in notable scales before seeking medical therapy and thus complicating outcome. Incisioning by traditional village folk healer complicated death by septicemia of an illiterate Indian lady from agricultural background in instant cobra bite. Authors discuss incisioning and other folk therapies taking toll on treatable snake bite related human deaths worldwide.
