Venomological artifact society

Toxicology,

9 (1978) 291-292

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

VENOMOLOGICAL

ARTIFACT

SOCIETY

March 1978 saw the formation of the _Venomological Artifact Society (VAS), a new interest group dedicated to the collection, cataloging, exchange and preservation of information-and artifacts associated with man’s use of, and treatment against, animal venoms from around the world. The co-founders of the group are Roger Caras of New York, nationally known naturalist, lecturer and author of Venomous Animals of the World; and John H. Trestrail III, R.Ph., Associate Director, Western Michigan Poison Center, and poison information specialist on biotoxins. The Society is continuously in need of examples of the following from around the world: (1) (2) (3) (4)

Commercially produced antivenin kits (new and Antivenin and venin products, both prescription and old). Printed ephemera: books, papers, advertising, dealing with venoms, venomous animals, or folk Artifacts of ethnological interest used by man

old). and proprietary

(new

or any other materials remedies about venoms. to treat envenomations.

If you have any of the above, or would like further Society, please contact:

information

about the

John H. Trestrail, III, R.Ph., Venomological Artifact Society, 5757 Hall St., SE., Grand Rapids, MI 49506, U.S.A. Telephone:

ELEVENTH

616-676-9945.

MILES INTERNATIONAL

SYMPOSIUM

Miles International Symposium on The Mechanisms of Pain will be held at the Turner Auditorium, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. from 7th to 9th June, 1978. The Eleventh

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