THE RELATION OF FUNGUS INFECTION OF GRAIN CROPS TO VASOMOTOR DISTURBANCES IN MAN
Authors: Jacob E. Klein
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 May 1937THE RELATION OF FUNGUS INFECTION OF GRAIN CROPS TO VASOMOTOR DISTURBANCES IN MANJACOB E. KLEIN, M.D.JACOB E. KLEIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-11-1708 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe relationship of diseases of plants to human health has not received the detailed consideration which it deserves. Although botanists and agriculturists have made intensive studies of plant pathology, there has been no systematic effort to correlate plant disease with human pathology. On perusing the literature with a historical perspective it is interesting to note that the ancients ascribed disease conditions to contaminated cereal crops. Thus Galen refers to the "morbus cerealis," a disease due to eating spoiled cereal. There are also on record epidemics from eating bread made of rye infected with the fungus, Claviceps purpurea.1Robertson and Ashby2...Bibliography1. HIRSCH A: Handbook of geographic and historical pathology, 1885. Google Scholar2. ROBERTSONASHBY JHT: Ergot poisoning among rye bread consumers, Brit. Med. Jr., 1928, i, 302-303. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. KLEIN JE: The etiologic relationship of certain grain fungi to acrodynia, thromboangiitis obliterans, and related conditions, Ill. Med. Jr., 1932, lxi, 254. Google Scholar4. KAUNITZ J: The pathological similarity of thromboangiitis obliterans and endemic ergotism, Am. Jr. Path., 1930, vi, 299-316. Google Scholar5. MELLANBY E: Nutrition and disease, 1934, London, p. 126. Google Scholar6. KOEHLERHOLBERT BJ: Corn diseases in Illinois, University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 354. Google Scholar7. STEVENSHALL FLJB: Diseases of economic plants, 1922, Macmillan Co., New York. Google Scholar8. MAYERHOFER E: Über Fälle von kindlicher Akrodynie und ihre Stellung zur Feerschen Neurose, Ztschr. f. Kinderheilk., 1930, xlix, 579-588. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. SOLLMANN T: A manual of pharmacology, p. 457, 1926, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. Google Scholar10. MARIE A: In Oxford system of medicine, Vol. 4, p. 311, 1920-21. Google Scholar11. DALE HH: The action of ergot, Jr. Physiol., 1906, xxxiv, 163. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. STOLLSPIRO AK: Über die wirksamen Substanzen des Mutterkorns, Schweiz. med. Wchnschr., 1921, lii, 525. Google Scholar13. FEER E: Eine eigenartige Neurose des vegetativen Systems beim kleinen Kinde, Ergebn. inn. Med. u. Kinderheilk., 1923, xxiv, 100-122. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: JACOB E. KLEIN, M.D.Affiliations: Chicago, Illinois*Received for publication May 1, 1936.From department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, and the Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology, Northwestern University Dental School. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 May 1937Volume 10, Issue 11 Page: 1708-1715 Keywords Bacteriology Bread Eating Pediatrics Research laboratories ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...