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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The case of a man, who died in consequence of the bite of a rattle-snake; with an account of the effects produced by the poison'.

Read 21 December 1809.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/4/3
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1809
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Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'The case of a man, who died in consequence of the bite of a rattle snake with an account of the effects produced by the poison' by Everard Home, 1809, PT/4/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_3/paper-the-case-of-a-man-who-died-in-consequence-of-the-bite-of-a-rattle-snake-with-an-account-of-the-effects-produced-by-the-poison-by-everard-home, accessed on 12 February 2026

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