Ergot usage and the contamination of foodstuffs in the 17th and 18th centuries and its possible implication in population changes

The population question in the long eighteenth century is explored and investigated further by using the demography available from the 30 year study by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, together with an understanding of the impact of ergot contamination of diet...

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Main Author: Swaffield, J.
Published: University of Edinburgh 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.662644