Status Updates From The Medical Detectives (1)

" ts adult victims are more variously poisoned. Some of them are victims of homespun credulity (folk medicine recommends a tea of Jimson-weed leaves for the relief of asthma, consti-pation, and certain other ills), and some are victims of a credulous. sophistication (the street-corner pharmacopoeia recommends Jimson-weed seeds for a liberating hallucinatory experience)." (173)