. A treatise on poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic [electronic resource]. mate is so moist, that from the month of ttcp-teniher till laic; in spring the whole country is overhung hydense fogBf% Here the rye, which is the common food ol thepeasantry, appears to have heen in Tcssiers time more liahleto he attacked hy the spur than in any other part of the con tinenti Testier found, that alter being thrashed it containedon an average about a forty-»eighth part of ergot, even in good * Tin PhulafU coHUtrlentil and ootuttlcd^ Punlcum mllldcsuvt^ Ph
. A treatise on poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic [electronic resource]. mate is so moist, that from the month of ttcp-teniher till laic; in spring the whole country is overhung hydense fogBf% Here the rye, which is the common food ol thepeasantry, appears to have heen in Tcssiers time more liahleto he attacked hy the spur than in any other part of the con tinenti Testier found, that alter being thrashed it containedon an average about a forty-»eighth part of ergot, even in good * Tin PhulafU coHUtrlentil and ootuttlcd^ Punlcum mllldcsuvt^ Phfctun pratcntttAlopcourut pratgiitli Ktidgsttlculatut^ Agrottlt ttolon\fcr<iy .inn cflitatat PoafiuUam^Fettuca durluicutoj dvundo afcndHa and dnnoldm^ Lollutn pifenne^ Elymtu anno*riuf and curoposuti Tfitlcwn tpolUt^ funotum rod rtpent^ Uolcut ovenoccui and to*DaotyHt glosfwrato, beiidai thoM (ntntionedin the trxi.—See Hubert, Erlaii-terungen mid Beitrtfgeiur Geeohlohts dai Muttarkornii Ruttt MagNffl fiirdiegeaammte t[eilkunde, + IMt-iiidin mm la Sologn6| Nisi. <!»• BoCi 11<»y. di JVl<j(l. i. 6li. 830 POISONOUS GRAIN. ed process from the juices of the plant #. By others, such asTillet, Fontana, and Read it has been held to be a diseased for-mation, arising in consequence of the germen being puncturedwhen young by an insect f; and in support of this statement,General Field says he saw flies puncture the glumes in theirmilky state where spurs afterwards formed, and imitating theoperation with a needle obtained the same result %. Finally,Decandolle, reviving a previous doctrine that the spur is a kindof fungus, conceived he had given strong grounds for believingthis excrescence to be a species of Sclerotium, which he terms*S. clavus§. Wiggers adopts the last of these doctrines, andseems to place it on a firm foundation. He completely failed toobtain spurs in the way indicated by Field, and also in the way ofinoculation mentioned by Fontana. But he found by
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