The poisonous principles contained in the plants described in this book are now known to exist even under cultivation, although cultivation may modify their virulence and exposure also to the influence of heat, acids of antiseptic would seem in many cases to render the toxin inert. Sea-water or the iodine contained it, appears to be incompatible to vegetable toxins and it is an interesting and significant fact that iodine, besides being antagonistic to very many ...
