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SOME time ago Dr. Heaslip forwarded to me from Papua a sample of the root of a vine which he stated was “used by the natives for two purposes, one, stunning fish, from which the root receives its local name of New Guinea Dynamite ; the other purpose is suicide”.
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Jones and Smith, Ind. Eng. Chem. (Anal.), 5, 75; 1933.
Jones, ibid., 5, 23; 1933.
Fortune, "Sorcerers of Dobu" (Routledge, 1932), pp. 50, 174.
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MACBETH, A. A New Guinea Fish Poison. Nature 133, 649–650 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133649a0
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