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TitlePaper, 'Conjectures on the charm or fascinating power attributed to the rattlesnake: grounded on credible accounts, experiments and observations' by Hans Sloane
Date[1730]
DescriptionSloane writes that 'the various relations not only of curious and credible authors, who have given us accounts of Virginia, Carolina [USA], and the neighbouring countries, but also the testimonies of several men of integrity by word of mouth, concerning what they call charms, inchantments or fascinations by snakes, have often seemed to me greatly surprizing, without my being able to satisfy myself of the true cause of such appearances.'

Subject: Zoology

Read to the Royal Society on 22 October 1730

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Conjectures on the charming or fascinating power attributed to the Rattle-Snake: grounded on credible accounts, experiments and observations'
LanguageEnglish
Extent13p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1733.0050
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8406Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector1660 - 1753
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