SC - Poisonous Tomatoes?

[david friedman]

At 2:44 AM -0500 11/26/00, Trierarch at aol.com wrote:
><<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?>>
>
>The following material makes a causal but specific reference to the toxicity
>of tomato plants on page 66.
>
>Fortin, Francois/Macmillan, Encylcopedie Visuelle des Aliments,
>Quebec/Amerique International, pg. 66-67, 1996.


Plant or fruit? The question is whether people in and shortly after 
period believed that the fruit of the plant was poisonous.
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David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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