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Case Reports
. 1999 Apr;126(8):1685-9.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702409.

Fifth W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture. Waterton and Wouralia

A T Birmingham  1
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Fifth W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture. Waterton and Wouralia

A T Birmingham. Br J Pharmacol. 1999 Apr.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Professor Sir William Paton, FRS (1917–1993). (By courtesy of the Wellcome Institute Library, London).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Walton Hall, Walton, Near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. (Reproduced from Waterton's “Wanderings in South America” 1906 Edition).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Charles Waterton (1782–1865) painted by C.W. Peale in Philadelphia, USA, in 1824. (By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London).
Figure 4
Figure 4
Charles Waterton's route from Georgetown to Fort St. Joachim in 1812. The three encircled W's indicate the approximate sources of his Wourali. (Reproduced from Smith, W.D.A., Br. J. of Anaesth., (1983), 55, 222, with permission from the BMJ Publishing Group).
Figure 5
Figure 5
Robert Schomburgk's list of the main ingredients of Macushi Wourali. (Reproduced from Bisset, N.G., J. Ethnopharmacol. (1992), 36, 20, with permission from Elsevier Science Ireland).
Figure 6
Figure 6
Waterton's label for his collection ‘Quiver with poisoned arrows for the blow pipe from Guiana 1812' (Photograph reproduced with permission from Wakefield M.D.C. Museums & Arts).
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