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al-ʻAqārib fī al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Saʻdūn, Saʻūd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Farrāj.
Saʻdūn, Muḥammad ibn Khālid.Date: 1421 [2000 or 2001]- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
The vermin-killer being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders and some useful directions for gardening and husbandry. And likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c., with many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, pests of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, ... pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in house and gardens, bug, lice, fleas, &c. also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Digital Images
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Polemonium caeruleum L. Polemoniaceae Jacob's ladder, Greek Valerian. Hardy perennial. Distribution: Temperate Europe. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Beck, 2005), and Lyte (1578) recommended it drunk in wine, for malignant ulcers, dysentery, difficulty in micturition, hip disease. The root was worn round the neck to protect against scorpions, and stopped toothache if chewed. Called Valerian Graeca by Dodoens (1551) and Parkinson (1640), Valeriana peregrina Belgarum by Lobel (1576). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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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?]- Pictures
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A collection of 'anti-boche' - ie. anti-German - medicine bottles, next to a scorpion about to be pulverised. Lithograph.
Reference: 16953i- Pictures
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A book scorpion. Coloured etching.
Reference: 42690i- Books
El alacran de Durango : clasificación y distribución geográfica en el estado sintomatología de la intoxicación producida por su piquete eficacia del tratamiento seroterápico / Carlos de la Peña and Isauro Venzor.
Leon de la Peña, Cárlos.Date: 1931- Digital Images
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Scorpion symbol of goddess Ishkhara, circa 2400BC
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Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon. circa 1050
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A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
Reference: 25031i- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - scorpion boil in the throat
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M0002730: Nigerian man, possibly a charm seller, with scorpion on his nose
Date: 04 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/23/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
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Signs of the zodiac: Scorpio, the scorpion. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583090iPart of: The twelve astrological signs of the zodiac. Gouache paintings by an Persian artist, 18--(?).- Pictures
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A woman representing philosophy. Etching by B. Audran the elder, c. 1700, after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25986i- Pictures
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Scorpion-like creature, incorporating human faces: charm image designed to protect against demons. Ink drawing, Tibet, 1850/1910?.
Date: 1850-1910Reference: 570969i- Pictures
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A woman representing astrology or philosophy. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25694i- Books
Greek fire, poison arrows & scorpion bombs : biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world / Adrienne Mayor.
Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-Date: 2003- Books
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The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Arachnida / by R.I. Pocock.
Date: 1900- Archives and manuscripts
M0000569: Symbols of the Zodiac Scorpio the scorpion, Virgo the virgin, Libra the balance, Aquarius the water-bearer and Pisces the fish
Date: October 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/5/114Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) and Taurus (the bull). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583109i- Pictures
Allegory of etching: a sphinx with the tail of a scorpion scratches an etching plate with her claws. Etching and letterpress by F. Rops, 1875.
Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898.Date: 1875Reference: 3086022i- Pictures
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Hindu toddy man and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 31914i