Poisons of the past
Subtitle: molds, epidemics, and history
By: Mary Kilbourne Matossian.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Mycotoxicoses -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History; Food -- Toxicology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History; Mycotoxicoses -- Social aspects -- New England -- History; Food poisoning -- Social aspects -- New England -- History; Diseases and history -- Europe; Diseases and history -- New England
Description: In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-184).