Well THAT was educational.
Googled images of Brown Recluse and thus waded through pictures of necrotic bites, yecch, gaah.
Found several references to compounds including activated carbon, among them this. Their soothing tone calmed my never-going-near-a-woodpile-again response.
Tory
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