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A New Narcotic Snuff from the Northwest Amazon.


Web link: www.jstor.org/stable/41...

Pages: 241 - 260

Abstract

An interesting new drug has been added to our growing list of native narcotic and stimulant plants of South America. Recent investigations have uncovered the use amongst certain Indians of eastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil of several species of the myristicaceous genus Virola in the preparation of a violently toxic snuff which is employed by the medicine-men in witchcraft, divination and the diagnosis of illness.