[Sca-cooks] Nutmeg poisoning

[emilio szabo]

> Nutmeg poisoning is even period:
> http://forums.rusmedserv.com/archive/index.php/t-10149.html
> >There are records of nutmeg abuse dating from the 12th century.
> >
> >The first case of nutmeg poisoning was described in 1576 by Löbel who reported the ingestion 
> >of 10-12 nutmegs (approx. 70-84 g) by a pregnant English lady ...


That would be Mathieu de Lobel, the passage is on page 641, in the last two lines:

http://imgbase-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr/displayimage.php?album=975&pos=645


"Noui generosam Anglam vtero gerentem vapida aromaticitate decem vel duodecim nucum myristicarum auidè comestarum cerebri ventriculi imbutis, ebriam esse redditam".

I knew a noble Englishwoman 
who, while pregnant, became "drunken",
because the small holes of her brain became filled with spice exhalation
of ten or twelve nutmegs eaten in a gready manner.

The sentence before the passage says:

"Immaturum stupefacere & inebriare dictitant"

It is often said to make dazed and "drunken" when it is unripe. 

(I am not sure if I got that right.)

E.

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