Probably the cleverest of her trappers is a Mexican who has a faculty of catching these dangerous creatures with his bare hands.

The story goes that this chap has been bitten so many times that the virus no longer has any effect on him.

Even that most poisonous of all reptiles, the Gila monster, has no terrors for him.

He swims along the shore where venomous reptiles most abound, and fearlessly attacks any and all that promise any income to his employer.
In a very rare book by General Sir Arthur Thurlow Cunynghame, entitled, My Command in South Africa, 1880, I find the following: The subject of snake bites is one of no small interest in this country.
Liquid ammonia is, par excellence, the best antidote.

It must be administered immediately after the bite, both internally, diluted with water, and externally, in its concentrated form.
The "Eau de luce" and other nostrums sold for this purpose have ammonia for their main ingredient.