This article about the medicine used by Tamilnadu vaidyas to treat snakebite around 18th century. Though brought to light by none other than the Britishers, they themselves shunned its use because of prejudice. Even the then Physicians and Surgeons found them to be effective and beneficial in majority of the cases, they didnot recommend them for general use because of its arsenic content. Irony is that, even now, we continue to use various allopathic medicines having known their side effects, drug interactions and toxic effects. Just because it came from the slave nation and because it contained arsenic they have blacklisted excellent emergency medicines of India and paved way for the downgrowth of Indian systems of Medicine. This is the abstract of an article ' The Vaidya's Cure ' in Madras Miscellany, The Hindu dated 17th September 2012, an weekly column written by S. Muthiah. In Tamilnadu, Vaidyas used to treat snakebite poisoning using tablets called Tanjore pil