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like an ^yE.tites or Eagk-ftone, as Tome of thofe I 
have do : Ado that it is good tor intermitring Fevers 
given in their Drink at the going off of the Fit ; and 
that it is good for the Colic, and Hypochondriac Me* 
lancholy, as may be feen in that Author, who I think 
is the only one, that lpeaks of it. 
It has been the mod rare of any of thefe Snake- 
ftones, as they are call’d in the Indies , and fo not 
taken notice of. 
I was inform’d there was one in Paris offer’d, to 
that great Inquirer after natural Productions the late 
Duke of Bourbon, at the Price of ioo Piftoles; to 
whom I fignifkd by fome of his Acquaintance, that 
1 had more than one of them, and would make, 
him a Prcfent of one, which I afterward did, left he 
fhould be impofed upon by giving fuch a Pr ce, as 
fome curious Perfons have often been in other 
Things of the like Nature. 
Pictrc del Serpente Cobra de Cabelo * Redi Efpe - 
rienze , Nat. p. 3. Tab. 1. Lapides Serjentis 
Cobras de Cabelo dibit, Edit. Latin. Pedra de 
Cobra, Kempfer. Amoenitat.Exot.p. 3 96. Pierres 
de Serpent. Biron Curiofit. de la Natura , &c.p.j 2. 
Y^\R. John Bateman , my worthy Prcdeceflor, for- 
merly President of the College of Phyjicians 
of London, told me, with great Admiration, that he 
had 
* Which fignifies in Portuguefe, the hooded Serpent, becaufe 
it has a Membrane about its Head which it can expand like an 
Hood : By others it is called the SpeCtacle-Snake ; for on the back 
Part of its Neck is the Reprefentation of a Pair of Spectacles. See 
a Figure of one in Kempfer’s Amasnit. Exotic, p. 567. 
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