| Description | Delile writes about the effects of the poisonous plant called upas antiar [Antiaris toxicaria], found on Java [Indonesia], which causes death when inserted into a wound. Delile describes experiments carried out on the plant by himself and [François] Magendie using cats, dogs, horses, and mules as test subjects in order to observe the effects of different doses of upas antiar.
Minor corrections appear in ink throughout.
Subject: Botany / Medicine
Written by Delile at 19 rue du Colombier [rue du Vieux-Colombier], Paris [France]. |