Kiln dried seeds - POISON - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50023 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 106.00 APOCYNACEAE Strophanthus sp | Entry Book Number | ?1876 | |
| Artefact Name | Kiln dried seeds - POISON | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Kiln dried seeds - POISON | Geography Description | South East Africa | ||
| Uses | Kiln dried seeds - POISONUse: VERTEBRATE POISONS User: Man | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Akerman JW | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Active principle of the Gombi Arrow Poison - the physiological action of this poison, derived from the S hispidus, has been studied by Fraser, Pelikan and others. It arrests the ventricle of the frogs heart in systole, before the functiona, l activity of the nerve centres and voluntary muscles is in any way impaired. Gallois and Hardy have lately succeeded in isolating the active principle of the poison, strophantine, from the seeds, in a crystaline form (Comptes Rendus, 5 Fevrier, 1877)., It does not give any of the usual reactions of an alkaloid and contains no nitrogen. Academy - March 10, 1877. | ||||