| Description |
ix, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The problem of poisonous plants / John M. Kingsbury -- Toxic mushrooms / George M. Hatfield -- Toxins and teratogens of the solanaceae and liliaceae / Richard F. Keeler -- Pokeweed and other lymphocyte mitogens / Alexander McPherson -- Literature review and clinical management of household ornamental plants potentially toxic to humans / Ara Der Marderosian and Frank C. Roia, Jr. -- Cocarcinogenic irritant euphorbiaceae / A. Douglas Kinghorn -- The poisonous anacardiaceae / Harold Baer -- Contact hypersensitivity and photodermatitis evoked by compositae / G.H. Neil Towers |
| Summary |
The dependency of the human race on plants as renewable sources of many foodstuffs, drugs, textiles, fuel, and building materials in generally acknowledged. However, the harmful effects produced by certain plant constituents, which result in an increasing incidence of poisoning cases in the United States each year, are not so widely appreciated. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on all substances from plants that are lethal or otherwise injurious to humans or livestock. Instead, owing to tremendous recent advances in the understanding of the chemical nature of their toxic principles, it reviews selected toxic plants which have been hitherto inadequately documented in previous texts |
| Analysis |
Man Effects of toxic plants |
| Notes |
'Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany ... June 11-15, 1977, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida' - half title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Poisonous plants -- Congresses.
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Poisonous plants -- Toxicology -- Congresses.
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Poisonous plants -- Toxicology.
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Poisonous plants.
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Plant Poisoning.
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Plants, Toxic.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kinghorn, A. Douglas, editor
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Society for Economic Botany (U.S.)
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Symposium on Toxic Plants (1977 : University of Miami)
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| LC no. |
79016180 |
| ISBN |
0231046863 |
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9780231046862 |
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