Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.

  • Foucher d'Obsonville, 1734-1802.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t js ] R F. M ARKS. I dare prefume the reader will be glad to fee here inferted feme of the moft efteemed receipts, ufed by different na- tions of Afia, again ft the poifon of Ser- pents. I obtained them of the phyficians, pfilles, and empirics, which, in their own country, were apparently moft in repute. The bite of the Serpents, both of ponds and fields, fuch as we fee in Europe, is likewife in Afia, feldom dangerous. A flight fcarification and a little unflacked lime, or copper rufty with verdigrife, ap- plied to the wound, may be fufficient for the cure. Thefe receipts are employed alfo to heal the firing of the light-coloured fcor- pion, which, in fome parts of Afia, is ah* moft as common as the fpider. Some people colled! a number of thefe laft-men- tioned infedls, put them together, let them diffolve, and ufe their oil ; while others prefer the fcorpion itfelf that gave the wound.