| 1830 - 420 pages
...considers it as a very dangerous drug to handle. One of his servants was twice nearly killed by it. In the neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity...perform the process. This latter is very simple : short joints of a thin sort of bamboo, sharpened at one end like a writing-pen, and shut up at the other,... | |
| 1832 - 636 pages
...considers it as a very dangerous drug to handle. One of his servants was twice nearly killed by it. In tin- neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity of...but very little is obtained at Martaban, owing, as I am told, to the poverty of the soil, and partly also to the circumstance of there being none of the... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 pages
...swellings attended with pain and fever ; these untoward effects are not, however, of long duration. In the neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity of varnish is extracted from the tree. To procure it, short joints of bamboo, sharpened at one end and shut up at the other, are inserted... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 692 pages
...swellings attended with pain and fever ; these untoward effects are not, however, of long duration. In tbe neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity of varnish is extracted from the tree. To procure it, short joints of bamboo, sharpened at oue end and shut up at tbe other, arc inserted... | |
| Johann Otto Voigt - 1845 - 854 pages
...occasions extensive crysipelatous swellings, attended with pain and fever, but never of long duration. In the neighbourhood of Prome, a considerable quantity...varnish is extracted from the tree, but very little at Martaban. Short joints of a thin sort of bamboo, sharpened at one end, and shut up at the other,... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1874 - 172 pages
...produced extensive erysipelatous swellings, attended with pain and fever, but not of long duration. In the neighbourhood of Prome a considerable quantity...tree, but very little is obtained at Martaban, owing to the poverty of the soil, and partly also to the circumstance of there being none of the people in... | |
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