John M. Kingsbury's Poisonous Plants of the U.S. & Canada- The Prentice Hall Bilogical Science Series [Illustrated/Photographs]

This book is intended as a reference for the physician and veterinarian who must deal with practical problems posed by poisonous plants, as a text for the medical and veterinary student and as an introduction to the scattered literature for the person of whatever background, who desires to investigate poisonous plants. It should prove of value also to those interested in physiologically active compounds in plants. Geographically it includes, as afar as determinable, all plants know to have poisoned livestock or human beings in the continental United States and Canada. Hawaiian plants have been included as far as practical. Botanically it includes the toxic members of all groups of plants except bacteria. Toxicologically it includes all plants which have caused loss of life and in which toxicity has been traced or may reasonably be traceable to a particular component producing and identifiable or potentially identifiable deleterious reaction in one or more species of animal when taken into the body under natural circumstances. Plants containing medicinal compounds, overdoses of which are toxic, have been excluded unless the plant itself has also caused poisoning. Syndromes associated with particular plants which appear best interpreted as digestive upsets have been included only if it seems probable that upset in digestion may be traced to a particular characteristic or component of the plant.