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Plant Toxins

The Essences of Diversity and a Challenge to Research

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Natural Toxins 2

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 391))

Abstract

Historically, toxins from plants are associated with murder, assassination and suicide (Mann, 1992). The deaths of several famous historical figures have directly or indirectly involved toxins from poisonous plants. Socrates’ forced suicide involved a toxic alkaloid from poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), while the many victims of Livia (wife of Emperor Augustus) and Agrippina (wife of Claudius) succumbed to the toxic tropane alkaloids of deadly nightshade (Atropa belladona). Cleopatra is reported to have tested the extracts of several poisonous plants including henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), deadly nightshade and nux-vomica (Strychnos nu-vomica) on her slaves before she chose the asp.

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