Posted on 01/26/2011 7:57:13 AM PST by Renfield
I would want something much faster acting than aconitine if I was going to put a spear into a giant cave bear even if it meant the meat would be poison. I want his cave and I don’t want him chasing me around after the spear incident.
Is there a fast poison incident to the midwest US? I don’t remember the native north americans using poisonous arrows like the central and south americans did.
Nicotine was used by some North American tribes as arrow poison. Don’t know of anything faster than aconitine outside of the tropics.
One simply needs to insure being 101 yards away at the time.
FYI: http://www.vincelewis.net/monkshood.html
This page doesn’t make monkshood sound that effective as a hunting tool.
Never did a web search on the plant.
My reference was a book on the Aleuts which provided a history of their using aconitine to kill whales before European contact. IIRC, the natives in Alaska sometimes used the poison on brown bears.
Most poisons are much faster and much lower doses are needed if introduced directly into the bloodstream.
I, of course, am not a direct source. I only know what I have read.
BTW, I have read over 10,000 books in my lifetime. Reading is a compulsion with me since childhood.
Impressive. Do you speed read or are you very old?
Both.
When I was younger I read at least one book per day.
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