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Researches respecting the natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal virtues, of the spur, or ergot of rye, when administered as a remedy in certain states of the uterus / [Abridged] By A. Neale.

  • Villeneuve, André Charles Louis, 1781-1853.
Date:
1828
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    the borders of the fields than those growing in the centre ? 4. Whether rye when sown mingled with other grains, be more susceptible of becoming sperred than when sown alone ? 5. Whether, as is believed by Duhamel, Ray, Tillel, &c. it be like the gall-nut, the result of the stings of certain insects, in order thereby either to feed themselves, or to deposit their eggs; a sting, by the way, which several authors have considered as being a sort of inoculation of an irritating fluid secreted by the insects, and productive of a de- generation’ of the grain. But, as M. Léveillé remarks, this insect is not to be confounded with those aphides found creeping on the surface of the grain, and nourishing themselves on the viscid honey-dew with which it is covered ! 6. Whether any of the microscopic generating eels of Fontana, observed also by Buffon and Needham, are to be found on it? or whether some other animalcules, such as those asserted by Rafu, and rejected by Roffendi and Rainville, produce it? | 7. Whether this peculiar alteration of rye be not the result of putridity? an opinion entertained by Vauquelin and Virey, and some other natu- ralists. 8, Whether, as is asserted by Parmentier, the spur has its first origin from a state of weakness in the covering of the grain? - B2
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