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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Papers relating to anthropology : the Ray collection from Hupa Reservation 
    Publication: [Washington, D.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1886?]
    ... 2 inches, wrapped only in upper portion with snake skin. 5. 1|| inches, wrapped with maiden's-hair-fern ... is discovered. They believe that witches cause a snake, frog, lizard, or other reptile to fasten to the body and to grow through the skin into the viscera. The barking doctor first discovers ...
  2. ... Splinters or TJwrns. —Take a handful of black snake skins and lay on to draw out splinters or ... Rattlesnake gall W. 6, 9, 15, 19 Rattle snake grease 352, 445, W. 4 Rattlesnake plantain 448 Rattlesnake skin - 447 Rattlesnake weed - 368 Red beech bark - IV. ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Volume 15) 
    Publication: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892-1896
    ... and their venom, i. 259- 262; present of snake skin to Dr. Holmes, 260, 261; mot as to ...
  4. ... quick relief in most cases. Procure a black snake's skin and tie it around the patient's waist, the ... is celebrated in cases of hydrophobia, bites of snakes, and scrofulous ... in eruptions of the skin, cleansing the the blood, and alter- ing secretion. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Excerpt from Fred Soper's diary 
    Publication: Produced: [8-23 April 1920]
    ... he wore heavy blue serge trousers, a wide snake skin belt, and a sing sing sweater of red & ...
  6. ... Modern “Henglish” Drum Major Berg found a dried snake skin on his bunk Thursday. May be a whole ...
  7. ... a small bag, filled with roots, herbs, bones, snake skins, or the heart of an enemy, slain in ... that a per- son once kept two horned snakes in a glass jar for two years, without ... and they cast their skins as usual about the 1st of April.* That ...
  8. ... quick relief in most cases. Procure a black snake's skin, and tie it round the patient's waist, the ...
  9. ... living animal, as much so as does the snake's skin after he has left it. Thus these skins ...
  10. ... by popular inherited prejudices, and the old unsloughed snake-skins of quackery, of myth, and of mummery. The ...
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