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THE DOCTOR'S BAG the blog about 19th century Medicine and Surgery Keith Souter aka Clay More Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) bites are common in western novels and movies. The treatment of them always involved pulling out a knife, cutting a cross over the bite, then sucking out the poison and spitting it away. The knife blade would then be heated to red heat and used to cauterize the wound. The bitten person would then develop a fever and probably rave deliriously throughout the night beside…

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I just discovered this wonderful anatomical chart (see above) from volume one of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, published in 1728. A beautiful, hi-res version of the image is available in the Wikipedia commons; I highly encourage you to visit the original (here) which is well worth a long, involved perusing, but is, sadly, too large to include here. To encourage you to visit the original, I have selected out some of my favorite details above. You can also check out the entire digitized book…

Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) discusses the history of monsters, and what they say about the people who invent them.

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