Original Linnaean Dissertations

Respondent: Georg (Jöran) Rothman (1739–1778)

Title: De Raphania ...

Date of Defense: 27 May 1763

Paginations: [iii], [1], 2-21, 1 plate

Lidén Title: Raphania.

Soulsby Title: Raphania

Drake Title: Raphania.

Note:

Abstract: A botanico-medical treatise on the disease Raphania (ergotism), recognized by Linnaeus to result from eating bread from freshly harvested grain and erroneously ascribed to presence of seed of the weed Raphanus raphanistrum L. (radish). The latter is included in the plate, with a botanical description.

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