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Poisonous Plants of the United States and Canada

John M. Kingsbury. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J. 1964. 626 pp., illus. $13

Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana

ABSTRACT

"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."

With this paragraph Dr. Kingsbury begins an informative and comprehensive book on the poisonous plants found in the United States and Canada. The first chapter, titled Knowledge of Poisonous Plants in the United States and Canada, was published originally in 1961 in Economic Botany. The chapter is interesting for those who wish a short history of the subject, as Dr. Kingsbury traces the development of knowledge of poisonous plants from Dioscorides to the present time in Europe and also its development in the United States.