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WMS/Amer.148
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Item
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| Extent |
8. ff.
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| Title |
Yagé
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| Date |
1927
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| Name |
Holmes, Edward Morell, 1843-1940.
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| Description |
Copy (of a) Report on Yagé.
Holograph draft (on rectos only).
Holmes refers to a conversation initiated by Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) on a South American drug 'causing clairvoyant and telepathic effects', to the identification of the drug, and to the writer's attempts at trial with a tincture prepared by W.H. Martindale (1875?-1933) on 'some of our leading scientific Spiritualists ... including Sir A. Conan Doyle, Professor (Sir) Oliver Lodge, & Sir (W.) F. Barrett.'
The author, aware of difficulties of identification and nomenclature, describes indigenous methods of preparation, and refers to a full account of the drug by A. Rouhier in Bulletin des Sciences Pharmacologiques, 1926, 33, 252-261, and to South American work on it.
Produced in London.
See Martindale (1977), p. 883 for a succinct account of the alkaloidal relationship of yagé (Colombia), with caapi (Brazil and Colombia), and with the better known ayahuasca (Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia).
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| Acquisition Details |
Purchased in April 1931
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| Accession Number |
57888B.
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| Access Status |
Open
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| Access Conditions |
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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| Reproduction Conditions |
Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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| Language |
English
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| Physical Description |
23x15 cm. Unbound.
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| Finding Aids |
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).
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| Related Material |
In the Wellcome Library:
A letter by Sir H. Rider Haggard is held as MS.8716.
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| Relevant Publications |
Published with little alteration as "Note on Yagé", Pharmaceutical Journal, 1927, 4 ser., 65, 111-112.
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| MaterialType |
Archives - Non-digital
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