salt-consuming

Updated: May 19, 2025

This poison, though producing so deadly an effect on animals, as well as human beings who exist without salt, appears to have little or no effect on salt-consuming Europeans. Salt, indeed, is the great antidote to the poison. The hunter, in consequence, supplies himself with a small quantity of salt.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

This poison, though it produces a deadly effect on all animals, as well as on the natives, who exist without salt, has very little effect on salt-consuming Europeans. Salt, indeed, is the only antidote to the poison. The hunter, therefore, when in search of the white uakari, supplies himself with a small quantity of salt.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Wanderers: Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco