Comments on: Botticelli mystery solved — it’s the squirting cucumber! http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/06/10/botticelli-mystery-solved-its-the-squirting-cucumber/ "Poison is everything and no thing is without poison" - Paracelsus Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: H Niyazi http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/06/10/botticelli-mystery-solved-its-the-squirting-cucumber/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 H Niyazi Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=1309#comment-1103 Great summary! We are indebted to Mark for his kind help on this! Ecballium is native to Malta and prevalent in Italy, even during antiquity. It is mentioned in Pliny's natural history and Materia Medica(amongst other texts) I have completed an updated post, including some journal articles looking at Ecballium in history and also how Datura Metel may have made it across during the 1st Millennium CE. More info here: http://goo.gl/P5Wm kind regards H Niyazi threepipeproblem.blogspot.com Great summary! We are indebted to Mark for his kind help on this! Ecballium is native to Malta and prevalent in Italy, even during antiquity. It is mentioned in Pliny’s natural history and Materia Medica(amongst other texts) I have completed an updated post, including some journal articles looking at Ecballium in history and also how Datura Metel may have made it across during the 1st Millennium CE.

More info here:

http://goo.gl/P5Wm

kind regards
H Niyazi
threepipeproblem.blogspot.com

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