Lexicographical Neighbors of Ourari
Literary usage of Ourari
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drs. bourneville and Bricon's manual of hypodermic medication by Bourneville, Paul Bricon (1890)
"to \ of a grain, ourari, or curare, causes congestion of the brain; ... We have
therefore to ascertain (i) the genuineness of the ourari (2) the degree of ..."
2. Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"Since the notice in the work referred to, of the curare or ourari (previously
mentioned by Kaleigh, both as a plant and as a poison), the brothers Robert ..."
3. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1850)
"... or ourari (previously mentioned by Raleigh, both as a plant and as a ...
that the curare or ourari poison does not kill by mere external absorption, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1882)
"Tho poison is principally derived from the juice extracted from the root of the
ourari plant. To this extract are added the juices of other plants that have ..."
5. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville (1854)
"The well-known poison ourari is prepared by the Indiana of Guiana from the fruit
and bark of the Strychnos toxicaria, than which nature has probably ..."
6. Icones Plantarum, Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1841)
"... and under the guidance of some Indians, was directed to a ligneous twiner, at
which they called out " ourari," the name of the plant in ..."
7. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"Since the notice in the work referred to of the curare or ourari (previously
mentioned by Raleigh, both as a plant and as a poison), the brothers Robert and ..."
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