William Burroughs: Sailor of the Soul.

Lees, Andrew J ORCID: 0000-0002-2476-4385 (2017) William Burroughs: Sailor of the Soul. Journal of psychoactive drugs, 49 (5). pp. 385-392.

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Abstract

In 1953, William Seward Burroughs made several important and largely unrecognized discoveries relating to the composition and clinical pharmacological effects of the hallucinogenic plant potion known as yagé or ayahuasca. Illustrations of Burroughs' voucher sample of Psychotria viridis and his letter to the father of modern ethnobotany, Richard Evans Schultes, are published here for the very first time.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	publicationstatus: accepted
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans, Banisteriopsis, Hallucinogens, Plant Preparations, Ethnobotany, Biomedical Research, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Correspondence as Topic, Science in Literature
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2018 14:41
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:38
DOI:	10.1080/02791072.2017.1357862
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3019109