 | 1811 - 544 pages
...seventy times in a minutes, circulating dark coloured blood, and it continued to contract for several * The Woorara is a poison with which the Indians of...Ticunas, which was employed in the experiments of the Abbd Fontana. I am indebted to Dr. EN Bancroft, who not only furnished me with some of the Woorara... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1811 - 462 pages
...wound in the side of a Guinea pig, and introduced into it about two grains of the woorara in powder. « The Woorara is a poison with which the Indians of...which was employed in the experiments of the Abbe FONT AN A. I am indebted to Dr. EN BANCROFT, who not only furnished me with some of the Woorara which... | |
 | John Ware - 1812 - 458 pages
...oil of almonds, the juice of arconite, the empyreumatic oil of tobacco, and the woorara,* act as * A poison with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points of their arrowy. poisons by simply destroying the functions of the brain; universal death taking place, because... | |
 | 1812 - 708 pages
...the appearance of an ordinary wound. The effects were similar from the application of the woorara,the poison with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points of their arrows. But the upas antiar, one of the powerful vegetable poisons produced by the island of Java, appears... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...dead. Two minutes after apparent deatb, the heart was found contracting, but yery feebly. Woorara, The woorara is a poison with which the Indians of...arrows. It appears not to differ essentially from the tieunis, which was employed in the experiments of the AM...Footana. F.-.p. ip. — A small quantity... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...dead. Two minutes after apparent death, the heart was found contracting, but very feebly. Woorara. The woorara is a poison with which the Indians of...arrows. It appears not to differ essentially from the ticunis, which was employed in the experiments of the Abbe Fontana. Exp. 19. — A small quantity of... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1825 - 696 pages
...given. The ordinary symptoms are, convulsions, fainting*, great debility, and loss of feeling.|| Woorura is a poison with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points ot their arrows. It does not appear to diller essentially from the ticunas. Mr. Brodiehas performed... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1865 - 798 pages
...in water to the consistence of a thin paste. I first made the wound, and then smeared the poison * The Woorara is a poison with which the Indians of...experiments of the Abbe" Fontana. I am indebted to Ur. E. N. Bancroft, who not only furnished me with some of the Woorara which he had in his possession,... | |
 | 1811 - 540 pages
...similar to those just described. The heart continued to act after apparent death, and the circulation • The Woorara is a poison with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points of thtir arrows. It appears not to differ essentially from the Ticunas, •which was employed in the experiments... | |
 | 1812 - 570 pages
...employed were the essential oil of bitter-almonds ; the juice of the leaves of aconite ; the IVoorara, a poison with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points of their arrows, and which differs essentially from, the Ticunas ; and the Upas antiar. For reasons before stated, it... | |
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The woorara is a poison, with which the Indians of Guiana arm the points of their arrows. It appears not to differ essentially • from the ticunas, which was employed in the experiments of the Abbe Fontana. 