Presumably the Natal ombozi, or spitting cobra, Naja hæmachites, who is fully equal to the feat described.
On the authority of N.A. Taylor and H.F. McDaniels.
Serpentaria derives its name from its supposed antidotal properties, and guaco and Aristolochia India enjoyed widely heralded but rapidly fleeting popularity in the two Indias for a season. Tanjore pill (black pepper and arsenic) is still extensively lauded in districts whose serpents possess little vitality, but is every way inferior to iodine.
A Chinese remedy—as might be imagined.
Still extensively practiced, the first in Michigan, the latter in Missouri and Arkansas, and inasmuch as one is cooling and soothing, and the other slightly provocative of perspiration in the part, are not altogether devoid of plausibility.