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Poisons were used to fight poison
If you got bit by a brown snake in Australia before 1950 (Much more deadly venomous than a Cobra) you applied a tornaquet above the bite.
You opened the bite area and sucked on it and spat it out , made it bleed to get rid of the venom, you also applied bushmen style a few grains of Condys crystal poison to the bite opened area, one poison to offset another they said. Condys baths are still used by the the nursing homes. 1960s Ringbarkers soaked their blistered hands in condys to harden the hide to keep working with an axe . Ringbarkers learned to use a round flat oil stone to make the axe blade razor sharp, needed to cut through the bark into the sap at a 45 degree angle , the cuts must meet in the sap to kill the tree
In the early 1900s medicine was touch and go.
Poisons nasty drugs so deadly all were used by the medico. Arsenic still works on White Ants, it goes through them all as they eat the poisoned dead, till they run out of ants. Puff a bit of arsenic into an opened wall panel where the ants are working and reseal it, it will work!
So Joe White about 1900 a Bushman Tracker, Dingo trapper runner of Brumbies and Scrubber cattle had his own remedy Arsenic Bluestone and axle grease to mix and bind it together. The Arsenic poison might kill a cancer? the bluestone would burn it out!, as used by old time horsemen to remove dead proud flesh from a horse or beast , sounds logical? And it seemed to work too!
It was known to kill skin cancer on a man or beast, and did, also killed Swamp cancer a large area under the horses stomach where worms were breaking through the hide, horses die of this one becoming walking skeletons. Used on setfasts on a horses back where proud flesh had hardened and caused irritation to the horse when a saddle was on the horses back. So it would take some time for the wound to heal afterwards left raw by the mixture but cleaned out. It was 1900 to 1950 and it was all they had 
My sister Diana was bitten by a funnel web spider in 1953 on the Moonie Highway and my dad opened each of the 8 punctre holes, sucked the venom out and his throat swelled up, Don applied a grain of Condys to each hole, they went to Surat, no Doctor there, finally the Ambulance man checked Diana and said there was nothing more to be done. She survived on Condys treatment ?
Don Johnson 21-may-10 Yes mate....when i was 17 i spent a few weeks ringbarking with uncle
Bill Brummell mums brother ....it was the killing of trees 48 years ago ....teams of men were employed
to walk through the forest in an extended line ringbarking selected
trees ....some were spared the axe .eg the ..mulga tree 13% protein in
the leaves good tucker in a drought, limbs were lopped to feed
starving cattle sheep and horses back then ....wilga tree the leaves
are eaten by sheep and cattle . in sheep country you saw the underside
of a wilga tree evenly trimmed as a gardener might by sheep eating as
high as they could reach underneath the wilga.....Yellow jacket gum
was used as posts and iron bark too...Gidgee was the favourite post
maker and will outlast the yard maker...

big trees got a double collar about an inch wide so the bark was gone
into the sap that wide.
the axe was dangerous, very sharp you could shave you arm hair with it
easily....i even sunk it into my leg and drove to town 2 get stitches then hehe So your old saddle is getting dry the leather on the point of cracking up like old cardboard
Get some sheep kidney fat (there used to be a heap of pure fat around the kidney of a sheep) or
Get some fat offcuts from the butcher, melt it down till liquid , then rub the warm oil under and between the saddle flaps none in the saddle seat , we used boot polish on the surface of the saddle put fat there you will get well oiled strides(pants) . Oil all leather work including stirrup leathers, bridles , stockwhips etc to retain their flexibility

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