Treatise on the venom of the viper, on the American poisons, and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons
Subtitle: to which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body, different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves, and a description of a new canal of the eye ...
By: translated from the original French of Felix Fontana ... by Joseph Skinner ...
Contributors: Skinner, Joseph
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for John Cuthell, no. 4, Middle Row, Holborn
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Physiological effect; Poisons; Early works to 1800; Venoms; Venom; Anatomy; Nerves; Human anatomy
Work titles: Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera
Notes: NLM copy: incomplete: v. 2 wanting.

Includes X leaves of plates at end of v. 2.

Signatures: (vol. 1 only) [pi]1 a8 b2 B-2D8 2E4.

ESTC, N14218

Translation of: Traité sur le venin de la vipére. The first part of this work was originally published in Italian at Lucca in 1767 with the title: Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera. The work was expanded and translated into French in 1781, from which the present edition was taken.