Botanical Article Bibliographic Records

Author: Valcarcel, Domingo Antonio

Coauthors:

Title: Contravenenos [Continued from] (N. 287): Yerba de la culebra. (Num. 293): Aloctan y Estella.

MLP no: 2784

BPH Series Abbreviation: Gaz. Guatemala

Citation: 7(293): 38-39. 1803 [28 Feb.]; 7(298): 73-76. 1803 [4 Apr.].

Year(s): 1803

Note: Reprinted from the Gazeta de Mexico no. 26, for 30 December 1802. "Don Domingo Antonio Valcarel of Acayucan, resident [administrator?] in Mexico …" The use of the plant as an antidote to snakebite was first proposed by Bishop Fermin Fuero of Chiapa, after observation of the same among the natives of Tabasco and Acayucan … A brief vernacular description is included, and among other native names are "algalia" and "cotillo." "The first to have introduced it into these provinces is said to have been the Bishop of Nicaragua Lorenzo Tristan." The case histories of the second installment are certified by Don Alexandro Antonio de Secada, curate of Managua.