Solutions or mixtures of toxic and nontoxic substances elaborated by snake salivary glands

Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera / di Felice Fontana.

A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.

Left, poisonous fang of an asp viper; right, head of an adder, with mouth wide open and tongue protruding. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

Snake venoms : their physiological action and antidote / by George Lamb.

1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : 8 illustrations ; 29 x 44 cm folded to 29 x 22 cm

Fitzsimons's Anti-Venomous Serum : directions for use and general information / F.W. Fitzsimons, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., etc. (Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum).

xiv, 2 unnumbered pages, 170 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Anti-snakebite serum : it would be appreciated if this form could be completed and returned to the Institute in order that more exact information on the incidence of snakebite and the effect of serum treatment may be obtained / The South African Institute for Medical Research, Hospital Street, Johannesburg.

x, 358 pages : illustrations (some colour), map (folded in pocket) ; 25 cm.

Die europäischen und mediterranen Ottern und ihre Gifte : Grundlagen zur Darstellung eines wirksamen Schlangenserums / von Richard Bieling [and others].

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Snake Venoms

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Snake venoms : their physiological action and antidote / by George Lamb.

Fitzsimons's Anti-Venomous Serum : directions for use and general information / F.W. Fitzsimons, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., etc. (Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum).

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera / di Felice Fontana.

Die europäischen und mediterranen Ottern und ihre Gifte : Grundlagen zur Darstellung eines wirksamen Schlangenserums / von Richard Bieling [and others].

Snake Venoms

Images from the collections

Images about Snake Venoms

Works from the collections

Snake venoms : their physiological action and antidote / by George Lamb.

Fitzsimons's Anti-Venomous Serum : directions for use and general information / F.W. Fitzsimons, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., etc. (Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum).

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera / di Felice Fontana.

Die europäischen und mediterranen Ottern und ihre Gifte : Grundlagen zur Darstellung eines wirksamen Schlangenserums / von Richard Bieling [and others].

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