An Anecdotal Biographical History of Poison Ivy

Rostenberg, Adolph

doi:10.1001/archderm.1955.03730350040007

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“…In 1635 Jacques Philippe Comut (1601-1651) wrote the first book on Canadian botany (Canadensium Plantarum aliarumque nondum editarum historia, Parisiis [Paris]). This work is also the first one to illustrate poison-ivy (reproduced in this article), which he listed under the name "Edera [Hedera] trifolia canadensis" (17).…”

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Poison-Ivy/Poison-Oak/Poison-Sumac—The Virulent Weeds

Mitich¹

1995

Weed technol.

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The word poison entered the English language in 1387 as ‘poysoun”, and in Memoirs of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 1, 1785, the word poison-ivy was used for the first time: “Poison ivy … produces the same kind of inflammation and eruptions … as poison wood tree”.The first known reference to poison-ivy, Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Ktze., dates from the 7th century in China and the 10th century in Japan. Since Toxicodendron species do not grow in Europe, the plants remained unknown to Western civilization until explorers visited the New World seven centuries later. Capt. John Smith (1579–1631) wrote the first description of poison-ivy and originated its common name; he noted a similarity in the climbing habit of North American poison-ivy to English ivy (Hedera helix L.).

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“…Tournefort limited the genus to temate-leaved plants, thus omitting such close relatives of poison-ivy as poison-sumac and the oriental lacquer tree (7). The lacquer tree has been known for thousands of years, and descriptions of the inflammations produced by lacquer made from its sap go back to before Christ (17).…”

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Poison-Ivy/Poison-Oak/Poison-Sumac—The Virulent Weeds

Mitich¹

1995

Weed technol.

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“…In general, children are more sensitive than adults, with sensitivity to dermatitis generally decreasing with an increase in age (Dawson 1956;Klingman 1958 (Rostenburg 1955 …”

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