'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 Robert 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 nd