Raleigh Recommends As An Antidote To The Ourari (Curare) The Juice Of Garlick. [But Later Experiments Have Completely Proved That If The Poison Has Once Fairly Entered Into Combination With The Blood There Is No Remedy, Either For Man Or Any Of The Inferior Animals.

The wourali and other poisons mentioned by Humboldt have, since the publication of this work, been carefully analysed by

The first chemists of Europe, and experiments made on their symptoms and supposed remedies. Artificial inflation of the lungs was found the most successful, but in very few instances was any cure effected.]) The wound is rubbed with this salt, which is also taken internally. I had myself no direct and sufficiently convincing proof of the action of this specific; and the experiments of Delille and Majendie rather tend to disprove its efficacy. On the banks of the Amazon, the preference among the antidotes is given to sugar; and muriate of soda being a substance almost unknown to the Indians of the forests, it is probable that the honey of bees, and that farinaceous sugar which oozes from plantains dried in the sun, were anciently employed throughout Guiana. In vain have ammonia and eau-de-luce been tried against the curare; it is now known that these specifics are uncertain, even when applied to wounds caused by the bite of serpents. Sir Everard Home has shown that a cure is often attributed to a remedy, when it is owing only to the slightness of the wound, and to a very circumscribed action of the poison.

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