London Medical, Surgical, and Pharmaceutical Repository, Monthly Journal and Review, Volumen7

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1817
 

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Página 150 - It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting in longitudinal furrows : near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and, upon being wounded, yields plentifully the milky juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made...
Página 151 - ... rest, the same quantity of pepper was again added, and another seed of the capsicum laid on as before : a similar commotion took place in the fluid, but in a less degree, and the seed was carried round with diminished rapidity. The addition of the same quantity of pepper was repeated a third time, when a seed of the capsicum being carefully placed in the centre of the fluid, remained quiet, forming a regular circle about itself in the fluid, resembling the halo of the moon. This is considered...
Página 150 - ... veins. The petiole is short. The flowers are produced towards the extremity of the outer branches, in a few scattered catkins ; the common peduncle of the males is slender and long ; that of the females is shorter. Previous to the season of flowering, about the beginning of June, the tree sheds its leaves, which re-appear when the male flowers have completed the office of fecundation. It delights in a fertile and not very elevated soil, and is only found in the largest forests. I first met with...
Página 154 - Amboina about the year 1650. They were also employed by the inhabitants of Celebes in their former wars with the Dutch. Speaking of their operation, he says the poison touching the warm blood, is instantly carried through the whole body, so that it may be felt in all the veins, and causes an excessive burning, and violent turning in the head, which is followed by fainting and death.
Página 82 - The greater the attainments of the candidates in various branches of science, in addition to competent professional knowledge, the more eligible will they subsequently be deemed for promotion...
Página 152 - Borneo ; by contrasting them with the first, second, ninth, and 17th experiments, it sufficiently appears how far the oopas of the different islands agrees in activity. It is probable that the oopas from Borneo, when fresh, may act more forcibly than that of Java. If the simple or unprepared sap is mixed with the extract of tobacco or stramonium, (instead of the spices mentioned in the account of the preparation), it is rendered equally, perhaps more active.
Página 150 - But except when the tree is largely wounded, or when it is felled, felled, by which a large portion of the juice is disengaged, the effluvia of which, mixing with the atmosphere, affects the persons exposed to it, with the symptoms just mentioned, the tree may be approached and ascended like the other common trees in the forests.
Página 154 - ... the cavity of the abdomen a small quantity of serum was sometimes effused. The stomach was always distended with air, and in those instances in which the action of the poison was gradual, and in which vomiting supervened in the course of the symptoms, its internal coat was covered with froth. The...
Página 153 - I have given it to a dog ; it produced at first nearly the same symptoms as a puncture ; oppression of the head, twitchings, faintness, laborious respiration, violent contraction of the pectoral and abdominal muscles, an increased flow of saliva, vomiting, great restlessness and agony, &c., which continued nearly two hours ; but after the complete evacuation of the stomach by vomiting, the animal gradually recovered. Rumphius goes so far as to assert that a small quantity may be taken internally...
Página 396 - The femoral artery was laid bare at the usual place, by an incision three inches in length, and compressed (but not tied circularly) by a narrow tape, so as , completely to obstruct the current of the blood with the least possible disturbance to the artery, or injury to its coats.

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