In the early 1990s a former US Marine tried a novel treatment for a rattlesnake bite. What was it?

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The 1994 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded in two parts. I cannot improve on the official version of this: MEDICINE - This prize is awarded in two parts. First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake, for his determined use of electroshock therapy -- at his own insistence, automobile sparkplug wires were attached to his lip, and the car engine revved to 3000 rpm for five minutes. Second, to Dr. Richard C. Dart of the Rocky Mountain Poison Center and Dr. Richard A. Gustafson of The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, for their well-grounded medical report: "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation." [The report was published in "Annals of Emergency Medicine," vol. 20, no. 6, June 1991, pp. 659-661.] http://bears.ece.ucsb.edu/personnel/astornet/humor/humor62.html [Edited to add supporting link - McG] Apr 21 04, 11:39 AM