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  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of assistants and snakes to a captivated audience, Tianjin, China. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1858, after T. Allom.
  • A caduceus in which the two snakes are entwined around a nuclear bomb: representing Cuban physicians' opposition to nuclear war. Colour screen print (?) by O. Martínez, 1985.
  • Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Photograph, ca. 1870, of a sculpture by Baccio Bandinelli, ca. 1530, after a sculpture by Agesandro of Rhodes, ca. 50 (?).
  • Left, red and purple diagonals and a person standing on a mountain top attacked by snakes; right, a person stranded dangling on a mountain top. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off. Coloured etching by Paul Pry (William Heath).
  • Two Egyptian porphyritic vases, one decorated with a satyr and snakes, the other with hieroglyphs and birdsheads; representing the succession of time and eternity. Etching after J.B. Fischer von Erlach.
  • The Thanatophidia of India : being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments / by J. Fayrer.
  • The Thanatophidia of India : being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments / by J. Fayrer.
  • The Thanatophidia of India : being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments / by J. Fayrer.
  • A Sinhalese four armed devil called Calloo Coomare, wearing a headdress of snakes and holding a cockeral, twig with leaves, sword and a small club in his hands. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • Above, a ladybird, a sprig of a coffee tree, five coluber snakes and a brown indian dove; below, tendrils of the jalap tree, seaweed of the genus corallina, a crow and a fish. Engraving by Heath.
  • Snake charmer holding an Egyptian cobra (<I>Naja haje</I>), whose venom immobolises its prey by attacking the nervous system. The Brooklyn Museum Papyri from Ancient Egypt includes a book of snakebites which describes all the possible snakes to be found in Egypt with a compendium of treatments. The papyri were translated in 1966-1967 by Serge Sauneron.
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Snake. Etching, 18--?.
  • Bamboo snake feeding tube
  • A snake's mandibular joint
  • A man clings to a tree, struggling not to fall into a cauldron containing a monster while a bear and snakes look on; rats gnaw at the trunk of the tree; representing the threat and eventual victory of Death. Engraving by M. Mouzyn, 1656 (?), after A.P. van de Venne.
  • Drawing: female Grass Snake's organs
  • Sand Snake - imminent slough
  • Jacobsons organ (within a snake).
  • Crabstick wounds on a snake.
  • Subcutaneous injection in a snake.
  • Chinese woodcut: Snake segment boil
  • A female snake charmer plays the flute to rouse the snake. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A red snake and a maroon snake entwined and glaring at each other. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A red snake and a maroon snake entwined and glaring at each other. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Snake charmer and family. Gouache drawing.
  • A snake. Coloured etching, ca. 1791.
  • A lachesis snake. Etching by Heath.
  • Information on HIV featuring a snake