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A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025)


On Sept. 26, 1957, renowned herpetologist and Field Museum curator emeritus Karl Patterson Schmidt died from a snakebite. He documented the process in meticulous, graphic detail.

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