| the life and viper of dr patrick russell md frs (1727-1805): physician and naturalist. | it is nearly two hundred years since the publication in 1796 of an account of indian serpents collected on the coast of coromandel by patrick russell. within the folio is a drawing and description of the venomous snake called katuka rekula poda in the local telugu language, whose venom was shown experimentally by dr russell to be nearly as lethal as that of cobra de capello. the snake is now known as vipera russelli or russell's viper. dr russell was representative of the naturalistic tendency o ... | 1994 | 7886689 |