Botanical Article Bibliographic Records
HI Number 151178
Author: Tournon, Dominique Jérôme
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Title: Empoisonnement causé par les racines de Jusquiame noire.
MLP no: 2728
BPH Series Abbreviation:
Ann. Clin. Soc. Méd.-Prat. Montpellier
Citation: sér. 2, 2(5/8): 71-84. 1818 [May/Aug.].
Year(s):
1818
Note: Pages 71-74 translated from J. Jacob Wepfer's Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae, published in Leyden 1733. Tournon follows up his translation with suggested antidotes to poisoning by water hemlock and cites other cases of plant poisoning, with Aconitum napellus, helleborus foetidus, Viola odorata. Among antidotes are mentioned: a distillation of juniper berries and essential oils of Angelica archangelica.