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" I was told, to the poverty of the soil, and partly also to the circumstance of there being none of the people in that part whose business it is to perform the process. This latter is very simple : short joints of a thin sort of bamboo, sharpened at one... "
A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Linum to Oyster - Page 208
by Sir George Watt - 1891
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 2

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,...
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The Edinburgh Encyclopædia Conducted by David Brewster, with the ..., Volume 18

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...
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Outlines of botany

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...
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Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable ..., Volume 2

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...
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Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis: A Catalogue of the Plants which Have Been ...

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,...
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Report on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-resins, and Resinous Products in the India ...

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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