SC - Lobster Races-OP

Sue Clemenger mooncat at in-tch.com
Sat Nov 25 10:26:20 PST 2000


At 10:37 AM -0500 11/25/00, Liam Fisher wrote:
>If you're not used to eating green tomatoes, they CAN make you sick.
>
>And that's all it took in those days to make something poisonous.

Do we have any evidence that tomatoes were considered poisonous, and 
if so when and where? I've seen lots of third hand assertions, but I 
don't think I have seen any primary source evidence. What, for 
example, does Gerard's Herbal say?
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David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/


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