[Sca-cooks] period poisons...

[Patricia Collum]

Here is a web site of deaths by unnatural causes in illuminations, it
contains a section on poisoning. Unfortunately they don't list the poison
being used.
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/highlights/31E23_uk.html

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] period poisons...


> Tomato leaves are a possibility, but more probably not used.  Most
> authorities place their importation from the New World around 1528 and
they
> are first described by Mattioli in 1544.  A poisoner would be more likely
to
> use tried and true methods rather than try something that was still under
> study and experimentation..
>
> Bear