 When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 1611869Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1856 - 418 pages
...and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under them. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall it produces a fearful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 692 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...the inflammation which might otherwise take place. A Dytk chief informed me that he had been struck down by a dfrion falling on his head, which he thought... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines...open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits alone... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 780 pages
...happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it products a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits alone... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1877 - 726 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not xmfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstauce death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the inflammation which might... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1877 - 868 pages
...not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is verj heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits... | |
 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - 1894 - 468 pages
...sometimes dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working...the inflammation which might otherwise take place. The old traveller LINSCHOTT, writing in 1599, says : — " It is of such an excellent taste that it... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 630 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered... | |
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