crotalus

The following is established of the heading itself.

crotalus is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q16545960. The record continues: crotalus is classified as a rattle or liturgical object.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.

Skeletons of various reptiles: seven figures, illustrating the skeletons of an alligator, a turtle, a python, a rattlesnake, a frog, an iguana and a chameleon. Line engraving, 1830/1870?. is dated [1830/1870?] and held by Wellcome Collection. The register further records that wellcome Collection catalogues 8 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that a banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) and boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) with diagrams of their open mouths. Engraving, ca. 1823. is dated 1823 and held by Wellcome Collection. The record continues: on the nature and physiological action of the Crotalus-poison as compared with that of Naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes : also investigations into the nature of the influence of Naja- and Crotalus-poison on ciliary and amoeboid action and on Vallisneria, and on the influence of inspiration of pure oxygen on poisoned animals / by T. Lauder Brunton and J. Fayrer. is dated [1875] and held by Wellcome Collection.

On the efficacy of Crotalus horridus in yellow fever : also in malignant, bilious, and remittent fevers : with an account of Humboldt's prophylactic inoculation of the venom of a serpent at Havana, Cuba / by C. Neidhard. is dated 1860 and held by Wellcome Collection. It is also recorded that researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake : with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned / by S. Weir Mitchell. is dated [1860] and held by Wellcome Collection.

Institutional holdings are recorded as follows.

Crotalus horridus : its analogy to yellow fever, malignant, bilious, and remittent fevers, demonstrated by the action of the venom on man and animals : with an account of Humboldt's prophylactic inoculation of the venom of a serpent at Havana, Cuba (1868) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Wellcome Collection records 9 objects associated with this heading.

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