POISON.
Tuh-yoh, . . CHIN. Gift GER.
Lau-hway-jin-tih-yoh, „ Zahr, . . HIND , PERS.
Kwan-yob, . .. . , Veleno, Poison, Venin, . . 'FR. Veneno, SP.
A poison used by suicides in British India is opium mixed with sweet oil. The ordinary plant used to stupefy is the Dhatura,— In China, the most common and convenient drug is opium. Mandarins of high rank are said to wear on their Persons a small bead, filled with what is called 2acock's blood, which it is said they take when Icy wish to destroy themselves suddenly. The •ikli poison of the Himalaya is largely used to oison tigers. Dr. Buchanan first acquainted the ;uropean world with the existence of four kinds f Bath, viz. Singya Bikli ; Bish or Bikh, the .oison ; Bikhma, a powerful bitter ; and Nirbisi. le referred the first to a species of Smilax. The fish, i.e. the poison, is the root of Aconitum -erox. The substances used for poisoning rivers ii order to obtain fish, are Croton tiglium, Ana nirta cocculus, Capsicum fruteseens, and Kare ;al (Tulu), a species of Posocpieria, probably intaus or longispina. The inhabitants of Mysore
ind Coorg habitually poison the rivers. From wo years' discouragement of poisoning, and one fear's discouragement of fine cruives, there were narked advantages.
l'oisou oak, the Yen-fu-tsze of the Chinese, s the Rims seinialata; poison bulb is Crinum Asiaticum ; poison nut is Strychnos mix vomica; and poison turnip, Cicuta virosa. The expressed juice of the root of Maranta arundinacea is stated to be a valuable antidote to some vegetable poisons, and also servicable in cases of bites or stings of venomous insects or reptiles.—Royle's III. p. 46 ; Sinononds, Com. Prod. p. 627.