Figure du Serpent nommé Coule-sang

About This Item

Title

Subject

Animals, Poisonous

Book Illustrations

Description

Title taken from caption of woodcut.

Le Coule-sang is a poisonous serpent that lives off of the blood of those it bites. It then secretes a poison that causes catastrophic blood loss and the victim dies.

Creator

Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590

Source

Original image in: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590. Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré., page 767. ZEa 9f (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1614

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Language

French

Type

StillImage

Identifier

ZEa_9f.767

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

4 x 16 cm

Citation

Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, “Figure du Serpent nommé Coule-sang,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/3044.