The Snakestone Experiments: An Early Modern Medical Debate

@article{Baldwin1995TheSE,
  title={The Snakestone Experiments: An Early Modern Medical Debate},
  author={M. Baldwin},
  journal={Isis},
  year={1995},
  volume={86},
  pages={394 - 418}
}
Au XVII e siecle eut lieu une polemique entre A. Kircher et F. Redi sur l'action antidote de pierres qui se forment dans le tete des cobras, et qui etaient utilisees comme remede en medecine 
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