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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 2580 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

Among 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.

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