a Emeritus Director, Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Sciences, Institute of Neurology , University College London , London , UK.
J Psychoactive Drugs. 2017 Nov-Dec;49(5):385-392. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2017.1357862. Epub 2017 Aug 10.
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.
1953 年，威廉·萨维尔德·伯勒斯（William Seward Burroughs）做出了几项重要但基本上未被认可的发现，涉及到被称为 yagé 或 ayahuasca 的致幻植物制剂的组成和临床药理学效应。本文首次公布了伯勒斯（Burroughs）凭证样本 Psychotria viridis 的插图和他给现代民族植物学之父理查德·埃文斯·舒尔茨（Richard Evans Schultes）的信。
