Snake Stones and Bezoars
Snake Stones and Bezoars
THE bezoar stone, according to the usual belief, was taken from the intestines or the liver either of the goat or of the deer. The Arabs…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Arabic
The first mention of the bezoar stone is by the Arabic and Persian writers. In the Arabic work attributed to Aristotle, and which was…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Kaempfer
Alluding to the ill-success attending the experiment performed by Ambroise Pare, in order to test effectively the supposed virtues of the…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Persians
This writer asserts that he considered those bezoars to be genuine which were of a partly resinous and partly mineral composition, so that…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Jehangir
In his memoirs, Jehangir Shah relates that an Afghan once brought from the Carnetic two goats said to have bezoar stones [pazahar] in their…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: India
A peculiar bezoar is reported from Indrapura, India. This was said to have been found in the skull of a rhinoceros, and was of light weight…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Mercato
An amulet set with a bezoar stone is said to have possessed such a power to prevent bleeding that when a Malacca prince was killed in a…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Indians
The bezoars of the New World seem to have differed considerably from those of India. They had a rough surface, were usually of a gray…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Occidental
A letter written in the sixteenth century by one who had travelled extensively in India and in Peru, illustrates the ideas of that time…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Indies
The comparative value of Oriental and Occidental bezoars was still an open question toward the end of the sixteenth century. In a letter…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Rudolph
Also one greate Bezar stone, sett in goulde that was Queene Elizabeth's, with some Unicorne's Horne, in a paper; and one other large Bezar…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Borneo
The bezoars of Borneo are taken either from monkeys or porcupines. For medicinal use, the gratings are dissolved in water and the solution…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Chinese
The Chinese work entitled P'ing-chou-k'o-t'an, by Chu Yu, written in the first quarter of the twelfth century, mentions the mo-so stone…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Holland
In the eighteenth century Valmont de Bomare reports that the bezoars of the hedgehog commanded the highest price. These were greasy and…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Wilkes
In a letter to the Macon, Georgia, Journal and Messenger of August, 1854, Major J. D. Wilkes, of Dooley County, relates that while hunting…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Christy
An American bezoar taken from the stomach of a deer killed in the Chilhowee Mountains, in Tennessee, was reported in 1866 by Prof. David…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Morocco
Writing of bezoars in the year 1876, Dr. Learned states that Signor Korkos, of Morocco, showed him one for which he had paid twelve…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Lapps
The snake-stone, legends regarding which are met with in so many different parts of the world, is known to the Lapps of northern Europe…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Christian
Tertullian writes that the wearing of stones taken from the head of a dragon or of a serpent was especially reprehensible in the case of a…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Welsh
The belief that the snake-stone of Welsh legend--in reality either a fossil or a bead--was evolved from the venom or saliva ejected by a…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Redi
Francisco Redi describes the extraordinary healing power attributed to stones obtained from the heads of certain serpents, called by the…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Oculus
Although tabasheer is mentioned in nearly all the text-books, very little of it has reached the United States. It is highly interesting…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: Rumphius
The real or supposed virtues of the "snake-stones" of Ceylon are detailed at considerable length by the great Dutch naturalist, Rumphius…
Snake Stones and Bezoars: White
A representative type of "madstone" is a concretionary calculus occasionally, but very rarely, found in the gullet of male deer. In form it…