[Sca-cooks] Nutmeg poisoning

[Susan Lin]

It may be period but so's the plague and I'd rather not experience either!

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, emilio szabo <emilio_szabo at yahoo.it> wrote:

>
> > 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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