Description | De Mayerne describes how the testes of the viper, when desiccated in the oven and ground into a powder, can be used to treat the bites of vipers, rabid dogs, and poisonous animals and can be mixed with powdered black hellebor (Helleborus niger) as a treatment for plague and wounds.
Subject: Toxicology / Herpetology
Read to the Royal Society on 2 May 1694 |