Title Poisons of the past : molds, epidemics, and history / Mary Kilbourne Matossian.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
	©1989

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	614.4 M433P	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-184).
Summary	In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period.--From publisher description.
Contents	[Pt.] 1: Introduction. Food poisoning and history ; A case study : Russia and its neighbors -- [Pt.] 2: Contributions to a health history of Europe. A new look in the distant mirror ; Mycotoxins and health in early modern Europe ; Witch persecution in early modern Europe ; The Great Fear of 1789 ; The population explosion of 1750-1850 -- [Pt.] 3: Contributions to a health history of colonial New England. The throat distemper ; Ergot and the Salem witchcraft affair ; Great Awakening or great sickening? -- [Pt.] 4: Reflections. Social control of mass psychosis ; Plant health and human health.
Subject	Mycotoxicoses -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
	Food -- Toxicology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
	Mycotoxicoses -- Social aspects -- New England -- History.
	Food poisoning -- Social aspects -- New England -- History.
	Diseases and history -- Europe.
	Diseases and history -- New England.
Indexed Term	Food Contamination by mycotoxins, history
	Humans Poisoning History
	Europe
	United States
Subject	Disease Outbreaks -- history.
	Poisoning -- history.
	Toxicology -- history.
ISBN	0300039492 alkaline paper
	9780300039498 alkaline paper
	0300051212 paperback alkaline paper
	9780300051216 paperback alkaline paper

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