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Recently the following report made the round of the papers: "In the village of Recale near Caserta a young girl of twenty, while making hay, was bitten in the foot by a snake a few days ago.
Her foot and leg soon began to swell, and the girl suffered great agony.Her father placed her on a pushcart and took her to Caserta. When they arrived there the whole right leg and arm of the poor sufferer had swollen to enormous dimensions.
The physicians declared that the girl was past cure.
The patient, moreover, lost consciousness, and her father brought her back to Recale more dead than alive. Here he made a last desperate effort to save his child by resorting to a remedy which tradition said had saved a girl of the village bitten by a snake centuries ago from certain death.
He dug a hole in the garden, put his daughter naked into it, and then covered her up, leaving only her head free.
The Mayor attempted to force the father by calling in the police to take his daughter out of the hole, but the entire village took the part of the father, the men armed themselves, and there would have been a bloody collision if the Mayor had insisted on the execution of his order.
The girl was "dug up'' again only twenty-four hours later, completely cured.
This strange occurrence has been confirmed in the 'Corriere di Napoli' by the prefect of Caserta."
From the 1903 book Return to Nature by Adolph Just:
https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/02/0201hyglibcat/020162.Just.pdf