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    Bitten : true medical stories of bites and stings / Pamela Nagami.

    Nagami, Pamela. | Date: 2005
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    Advertisement. We do hereby certify, that Mr. Francisco Torres, a native of France, has brought with him some snake stones, which he bought amongst the Spaniards, come from China, which snake stones have the virtue of curing the bites of any venomous or poisonous creatures such as snakes, scorpions or mad dogs ... This we testify for truth: Rhode-Island in New-England, October 12. 1740. Thomas Saquin, William Hatton, Samuel Hobert. ...

    Saquin, Thomas. | Date: 1743?]
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