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1
The Retrospect of Medicine
lungs to collapse to effect the expulsion of the air they contain, as in the natural
expiratory action. Woorali Poison. — Like strychnia, the Woorali poison has no
effect on the heart; but it is diametrically opposed in its action on the voluntary ...
2
Chambers's Encyclopædia
Heintz has sulisequently examined the precipitate which tannic acid throws down
from the watery solution of the Woorali or Curari Plant (Strychnos toxifera). poison
, but only found that it contained no nitrogen, and was composed of ap[>arently ...
3
Chambers's encyclopædia: a dictionary of universal knowledge ...
CURARI, OURARI, WOORALI, or WOO- RARA, a celebrated poison used by
some tribes of South American Indians for poisoning their arrows. It is by means
of this poison that the small arrows shot from the Blowpipe (q. v.) become so
deadly.
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Chambers's encyclopaedia: a dictionary of universal ...
WOORALI POISON. Since the publication of the article Cubari, which is one of
the synonyms of this substance, the physiological action of this fearful poison has
been carefully studied by Drs Weir Mitchell and Hammond of the United States ...
5
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal ...
This curarin was a solid transparent mass, of an excessively bitter taste, and
possessed in an eminent degree of all the virulence of the woorali. Heintz has
subsequently examined the precipitate which tannic acid throws down from the
watery ...
Ephraim Chambers, Robert W. Chambers, 1868
6
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
As lock-jaw consists in an unnatural rigidity of the muscular system, which, with
all its accompanying symptoms, may be artificially produced by strychnine, while
the essential characteristic of the woorali poison is that of producing a relaxation
...
7
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
in a remarkable compound known as woorali. This brown, syrupy gum was
concocted from vines, ants, snakes' teeth and Indian peppers. To taste it
oreatitwould donoharmat all.But if it enteredthe bloodstream – even through
thetiniest nick – it ...
The man has been murdered – done to death by that devil's drug woorali, if I am
not mistaken. But who administered it and how it was administered are things I
can't tell you yet.” “Woorali! Woorali! That is the basis of the drug curarin,
produced ...
Then he lies down. His tongue talks no longer. No sight in his eyes. He folds his
arms. He rolls over slowly. His mouth moves without sound. I feel his heart. It
goes fast and then slow. It stops. Quacca has shot his last woorali dart.' " Leslie
and I ...
He rolls overslowly. His mouth moves without sound. Ifeel his heart. It goes
fastand then slow. It stops. Quacca hasshot his last woorali dart.'" We lookedat
eachother, and thehorror of the thing sank deep into our minds. Woorali. What
was it?
