Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 8, 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 52
Additional Source Text:
"Which is rendered interesting from the following circumstances. Daniel Pelts, Daniel Thatcher & others of Huntington [Hunterdon] County, Alex[andria] Township N.J. working in a field on the 3d of July 1810 found several Snake-Eggs, one of which D. Peltz undertook to swallow for a subscription sum of 25 Cents made up among the company. After he had swallowed it they alarmed him by opening the other Eggs and shewing him the snakes that were in them. He tried by Emetics to discharge it, in vain. After a few days he imagined he felt something alive in his stomach. At length by repeated emetics, on the 27th of August he succeeded in expelling this snake. Still uncertain whether it was the only one hatched from the Egg."
