Sir Charles James Mrtin MB FRS: Australian serpents and Indian plague, one-hundred years ago

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 999-1010

  Hawgood, Barbara J ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; SNAKE VENOM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVENOMATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIA; PLAQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ELAPIDAE; NOTECHIS SCUTATUS; PASTEURELLA; PSEUDECHIS PORPHYRIACUS; SERPENTES; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0030741060     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00006-8     Document Type: Review

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