castor-bean

This toxin comes from castor-bean plants, and concentrated solutions can be very nasty.

The Terrors Of Toxins 2008

If his condition was, in fact, due to castor-bean poisoning, it might be possible that advanced forensic techniques could isolate antibodies developed after ricin poisoning from the blood samples he had given.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

Two weeks after Richardson received the ricin exemplars from Dirks, an incident in Arkansas demonstrated that ricin/castor-bean poisoning was not the uncommon weapon that it seemed.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

The day before, he had found the castor-bean packets and the empty potassium chloride vials in her purse.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

Mike went to North Kansas City Hospital and asked the librarian to search for articles and tracts that mentioned castor-bean or ricin poisoning.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

Even though the police had the castor-bean packets in evidence, Mike had not felt safe.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

She could tell detectives only that her memory was that this was the castor-bean sale.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

The gallery was left to wonder if Tim had intended to grow castor-bean plants for a school project.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

Chillingly, the symptoms of castor-bean poisoning were much like those of tropical sprue.

Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

This resemblance is responsible for some of the popular names, such as "castor-bean tick," etc.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane