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| On the “serpent in general” arranged under the following headings: “equivocation (i.e., various meanings of the word serpent), synonyms and etymologies, differences, form and description, anatomy, nature and habits, temperment, coitus and generation, voice, movements, places, diet, physiolognomy, antipathy, sympathy, modes of capture, death and wounds caused by the serpent, modes and signs of poisoning, remedies, epithets, denominations, prodigies and presages, monsters, mythology, gods to which it is dedicated, fables, allegories and mysteries, hieroglyphics, emblems and symbols, proverbs, coinage, miracles, riddles, devices, heraldic signs, historical facts, dreams, simulacra and statues, use in human diet, use in medicine, miscellaneous uses.” M. Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage Books, 1970) 39. |