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1. The Pituri Poison of Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Thomas R. Fraser
Thomas R. Fraser
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Professor of Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh.
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Abstract

An opportunity for examining the Pituri of Australia was afforded to the author by Dr Bancroft of Brisbane, who, in 1877, gave him for that purpose specimens of dry broken leaves of the plant, in the form in which it is used by the natives, and also a small quantity of watery extract.

After describing its use by the natives of Australia, the author advanced reasons in support of Von Mueller's opinion, that Pituri is obtained from Duboisia Hopwoodii, and that this plant should be placed in the Solanaceæ.

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Proceedings 1878–79
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 10 , 1880 , pp. 200 - 202
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1880

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