Struan Sutherland's “Rationalisation Of First-Aid Measures For Elapid Snakebite”—A Commentary

The evolution of theory and practice in toxinology andthe personalities involved holds as much fascination asthe creatures that inflict these potentially mortal injuries.Perhaps the earliest text on snakebite is the papyrus heldat the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Dating from DynastyXXX or the early Ptolemaic Period (305

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