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by a Siamese girl and had been removed subsequently 

 from an abscess at the back of her neck. The sting-ray 

 had been boiled with part of the spine in it. Campbell 

 Highett records a similar case also in Bangkok* In 

 1914 a Siamese stabbed a Malay in the back with one 

 of these spines, which was successfully removed by 

 Dr. L. H. Taylor at the State Hospital, Kelantan. 

 The serious natm*e of these wounds was well known to 

 the ancients ; they are mentioned in Lueian : — 



The King of Itliaca, Laeites son, 



I mean Ulysses, *twas my self that killed. 



And not Teiemachus with scate-fish bone. (Ret. 9.) 



The " poisonous trygon's bone " is also referred to in 

 West*s ** Triumph of the Gout '* (Lucian). The present- 

 day use of trygon venom by the B6nua tribe of pagans 

 in Johore as an arrow or dart poison is refeixed to under 

 section The Upas Tree, p. 176. 



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(1) Byam & Archibald. (1921.) " The Practice of Medicine in 



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