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William Burroughs: Sailor of the Soul

Lees, AJ; (2017) William Burroughs: Sailor of the Soul. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs , 49 (5) pp. 385-392. 10.1080/02791072.2017.1357862. Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: William Burroughs: Sailor of the Soul
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2017.1357862
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1357862
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Ayahuasca, Psychotria viridis, William Seward Burroughs, neurology
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571570
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