ON POISONOUS PLANTS

The concept of poison is sometimes so broad that it is not easy to say exactly what a poison is. In the widest sense, it encompasses all eruptive diseases original: "morbos exanthematicos"; referring to diseases like smallpox or measles that produce skin rashes and the bites of animals, which not infrequently have death as a companion. Some also include here atmospheric vapors, which are extremely harmful to the lungs and often extinguish the spark of animal life faster than a moment. In a broader sense, all remedies—even health-giving ones—have been called poisons; however, in a stricter sense, some authors have wished to designate as such only those substances which, in the smallest dose, act most violently, or loosen and destroy the connection of the body, excite more serious disease symptoms, and even bring about death itself.

Therefore, the genuine notion of poison is not so easily determined by a logical definition.

The wiser physicians original: "Medici" all easily agree on this point:

that

1st: Everything should be called Nutritious original: "Nutriens" which, when taken into the body and dissolved by the powers of vegetative life, is converted into the nature