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Observations on the internal use of the solanum or nightshade. By Thomas Gataker, surgeon to Westminster Hospital.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Observations on the internal use of the solanum or nightshade. By Thomas Gataker, Surgeon to Westminster Hospital.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Traité des propriétes, usages et effets de la douceamère, ou solanum scandens, dans le traitement de plusieurs maladies, et sur-tout des maladies dartreuses / [Joseph Barthélemy François Carrere].
Carrère, Joseph-Barthélemy-François, 1740-1802Date: 1781- Books
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Traité des propriétés, usages et effets de la douceamère, ou solanum scandens, dans le traitement de plusieurs maladies, et sur-tout des maladies dartreuses / [Joseph Barthélemy François Carrere].
Carrère, Joseph-Barthélemy-François, 1740-1802Date: 1789- Books
An essay on the use of the atropa belladonna, or solanum lethale, and the salanum hortense; with practical observations on their effects in the cure of scirrhus, cancer, stricture, and various other complaints / [Powell Charles Blackett].
Blackett, Powell Charles.Date: 1826- Books
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The potato disease; its origin, nature, & prevention, with a chemical and microscopical analysis of the sound and diseased tubers / by G. Phillips.
Phillips, George, 1778-1851.Date: 1845- Books
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Traité de la pomme de terre; sa culture, ses divers emplois dans les préparations alimentaires, les arts économiques, la fabrication du sirop, de l'eau de vie, de la potasse, etc / Par mm. Payen et Chevalier.
Payen, Anselme, 1795-1871.Date: 1826- Books
Toute la pomme de terre / Lucienne Desnoues ; préf. de James de Coquet.
Desnoues, Lucienne, 1921-Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
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The potato of romance and of reality / [William E. Safford].
Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926.Date: [1926]- Books
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Kartofel' i ego pitatel'nost' : (iz Gigienicheskoi Laboratorii Imper. Voen.-Med. Akademii) : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / V.A. Niemchenkova.
Ni︠e︡mchenkov, V. A.Date: 1886- Digital Images
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Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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The white potato / Anne Tjomsland.
Tjomsland, Anne.Date: 1950- Books
Potato recipes / edited by Elizabeth Craig.
Date: 1936- Books
Potatoes / Ministry of Food.
Date: [Between 1940 and 1945?]- Books
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On the potato disease / by F.J. Graham.
Graham, Francis James.Date: [1846]- Books
Potato recipes for the regulo / Radiation Ltd.
Radiation Limited. Publications Department.Date: [1938]- Books
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De spirituosis e tuberibus solani confectis : dissertatio inauguralis medico-politica ... / auctor Carolus Krauss.
Krauss, Karl.Date: 1835- Books
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Rapport fait à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, sur l'usage des pommes de terre [signed P. Bercher, Macquer, P. Gevigland, Roux, Darcet, Sallin].
Date: 1771]- Books
The history and social influence of the potato / Redcliffe N. Salaman ; with a chapter on industrial uses by W.G. Burton.
Salaman, Redcliffe N. (Redcliffe Nathan), 1874-1955.Date: 1985- Books
Tomato and cucumber recipes / British Glass-House Produce Marketing Association Ltd.
Date: [1935]- Books
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Opinions and new discoveries in agriculture, medicine, &c. &c. &c. / by Charles Whitlaw.
Whitlaw, Charles.Date: 1847- Digital Images
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Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Dissertazione del signor Tissot sul pane, sull'economia, e cultura de'grani, e sul pane di pomi di terra etc., in confutazione di una dissertazione del Signor Linguet contro l'uso del pane, e del grano. Si aggiunge la dissertazione medesima tradotta dal francese, con note, etc / [del signor Linguet] ; Ed altri trattati del Sign. Antonio Matani, e del Sig. Parmentier sulla panizazione, e sul pane di pomi di terra &c.
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.Date: 1781- Books
Review of data on possible toxicity of GM potatoes / Royal Society.
Royal Society (Great Britain)Date: 1999- Books
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Cemeteries : as receptacles for the dead, and principally as places for health, recreation, meditation, and pleasure, and as substitutes for parks ; Wills or testaments : with the proper distribution of these to females, who are frequently left too little, and are less cared for than sons ; Potatoes : as an article of food, and in a political point of view, their cultivation, growth, and improvement, and the causes of disease, and means of preventing it / by John Moodie.
Moodie, John.Date: 1848