@article{ref1,
title="Poisoning with toxic plants in Curacao in 1766",
journal="Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde",
year="1998",
author="Rutten, A. M. and Statius van Eps, L. W.",
volume="142",
number="51",
pages="2796-2798",
abstract="In the spring of 1766 a black supervisor in Curaçao was the victim of attempted poisoning by a black practitioner or curador, engaged by two persons caught stealing by the supervisor. Data on the case were preserved in a letter from the Curaçao director to the managers of the West-Indian Company in Amsterdam. In retrospect, the symptoms of the intoxication indicate that a similar mixture of toxic plants was used as described in 890 A.D. by the Arabic medical writer Wahshiya in his 'Book of Poisons': Calotropis procera and Pithecellobium unguis cati.<p /><p>Language: nl</p>",
language="nl",
issn="0028-2162",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}