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RefNoRBO/8/27
AltRefNoRBO.8.93
LevelItem
Title'A Relation of the Symptoms that attended Mr Robert Burdet at his Death by the Bite of a Serpent Communicated by Aaron Goodyear who was then present
Datend
DescriptionRobert Burdet was bitten by a snake on 9 October 1678 when he was near Aleppo - that if the venom had been sucked out, Burdet would have survived - that the snake was later killed with oil of tobacco
Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1695
LanguageEnglish
Extent2 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 20, no 245 (1698), p 351
RelatedRecordCLP/14i/42
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