HUACO See also:

• HUACO GUACO

GUACO  or Gums, also Vejuco and Bejuco, terms applied to various Central and See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICAN

American and See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• PLANTS

plants, in repute for curative virtues . The See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and negroes of See also:

• COLOMBIA

Colombia believe the plants known to them as See also:

• GUACO, HUACO

guaco to have been so named after a See also:

• SPECIES

species of See also:

• KITE

kite, thus designated in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of its cry, which they say attracts to it the See also:

• SNAKES

snakes that serve it principally for See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food; they further hold the tradition that their antidotal qualities were discovered through the observation that the See also:

• BIRD

bird eats of their leaves, and even spreads the juice of the same on its wings, during contests with its See also:

• PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey . The disputes that have arisen as to what is " the true guaco " are to be attributed mainly to the fact that the names of the American Indians for all natural See also:

• OBJECTS

objects are generic, and their genera not always in coincidence with those of naturalists . Thus any See also:

• TWINING, THOMAS (1735-1804)

twining plant with a See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart-shaped See also:

• LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf, See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white and See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green above and See also:

• PURPLE

purple beneath, is called by them guaco (R . Spruce, in See also:

• HOWARD (FAMILY)
• HOWARD, CATHERINE (d. 1542)
• HOWARD, JOHN (1726-1790)
• HOWARD, LORD WILLIAM (1563–1640)
• HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS (1830-19o9)
• HOWARD, SIR ROBERT (1626–1698)

Howard's Neueva Quinologia, " See also:

• CINCHONA

Cinchona succirubra," p . 22, See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note) . What is most commohly recognized in Colombia as guaco, or Vejuco del guaco, would appear to be Mikania Guaco (See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt and See also:

• BONPLAND, AIMS JACQUES ALEXANDRE (1773-1858)

Bonpland, Pl. See also:

• EQUINOX (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and nox, night)

equinox. ii . 84, pl . 105, 1809), a climbing Composite plant of the tribe Eupatoriaceae, affecting moist and shady situations, and having a much-branched and deep-growing See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root, variegated, serrate, opposite leaves and dull-white See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, in axillary clusters . The whole plant emits a disagreeable odour . It is stated that the Indians of Central See also:

• AMERICA

America, after having " guaconized " themselves, i.e. taken guaco, catch with impunity the most dangerous snakes, which writhe in their hands as though touched by allot See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron (B . Seemann, See also:

• HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
• HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
• HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
• HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
• HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)

Hooker's Journ. of See also:

• BAT

Bat. v .

76, 1853) . The odour alone of guaco has been said to cause in snakes a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of stupor and torpidity; and Humboldt, who observed that the near approach of a See also:

• ROD (O.E. rodd, probably related to Norw. rudda, stick, rodda, stake)
• ROD, EDOUARD (1857-1910)

rod steeped in guaco-juice was See also:

• OBNOXIOUS (Lat. obnoxiosus, from ob, over, against, and noxa, harm)

obnoxious to the venomous Coluber corallinus, was of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that inoculation with it imparts to the See also:

• PERSPIRATION (Lat. per, through, and spirare, to breathe)

perspiration an odour which makes See also:

• REPTILES (Lat. Reptilia, creeping things, from reptilis; ref ere, to creep; Gr. Ep7rety, whence the term " herpetology," for the science dealing with them)

reptiles unwilling to bite . The See also:

• DRUG
• DRUG (from Fr. drogue, a word common in Romance languages, cf. Span. and Ital. droga; the origin of the word is obscure, but may possibly be connected with Dutch droog, dry)

drug is not used in See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• THERAPEUTICS (Gr. BepaaeuTLKIi, Sc. TEXVrt, from Beparebsty, to serve)

therapeutics .