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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES., CHAP. 22.—REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE OTHER SERPENTS. (search)

tions from snakes, by the aid of which the language of birds, he says, may be understood.A favourite reverie with the learned of the East. Dupont de Nemours, Ajasson informs us, has left several Essays on this subject. The Æsculapian snake was first brought to Rome from Epidaurus,In Peloponnesus, the principal seat of his worship. A very full account of his introduction, under the form of a huge serpent, into the city of Rome, is given by Ovid, Met. B. xv. 1. 544, et seq. This took place B.C. 293. but at the present day it is very commonly reared in our housesAmong the snakes that are tamed, Ajasson enumerates the Coluber flagelliformis of Dandin, or American coach-whip snake; the Coluber constructor of Linnæus, or Black snake; and the Coluber viridiflavus of Lacepede. The Æsculapian serpent is still found in Italy. even; so much so, indeed, that if the breed were not kept down by the frequent conflagrations, it would be impossible to make head against the rapid increase of them. But

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