TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Poisoning with toxic plants in Curacao in 1766
JO  - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
A1  - Rutten, A. M.
A1  - Statius van Eps, L. W.
SP  - 2796
EP  - 2798
VL  - 142
IS  - 51
N2  - In the spring of 1766 a black supervisor in Curaçao was the victim of attempted poisoning by a black practitioner or curador, engaged by two persons caught stealing by the supervisor. Data on the case were preserved in a letter from the Curaçao director to the managers of the West-Indian Company in Amsterdam. In retrospect, the symptoms of the intoxication indicate that a similar mixture of toxic plants was used as described in 890 A.D. by the Arabic medical writer Wahshiya in his 'Book of Poisons': Calotropis procera and Pithecellobium unguis cati.<p /> <p>Language: nl</p>
LA  - nl
SN  - 0028-2162
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -