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Lidén Number 126
Respondent: Georg (Jöran) Rothman (1739-1778)
Title: De Raphania ...
Date of Defense: 27 May 1763
Paginations: [iii], [1], 2-21, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Raphania.
Soulsby Title: Raphania
Drake Title: Raphania.
Note:
Abstract: A botanico-medical treatise on the disease Raphania (ergotism), recognized by Linnaeus to result from eating bread from freshly harvested grain and erroneously ascribed to presence of seed of the weed Raphanus raphanistrum L. (radish). The latter is included in the plate, with a botanical description.