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Title: Accounts of the pretended serpent-stone called Pietra de Cobra de Cabelos, and of the Pietra de Mombazza or the Rhinoceros Bezoar, together with the figure of a rhinoceros with a double horn
Author(s): Sloane, H.
Year published: 1749
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Volume: 46 (492)
Pages: 118-119, 124-125, pl. 1
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Chelsea, April 19, 1749
The first I have heard and do believe to be a stone found in the stomach or intestines of the Rhinoceros, not, that I know, taken notice of by any natural historian, excepting Redi. The place where it is said to be found is on the South East coast of Africa, a...
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