The Secretary of the Boston Mycological Club, writing in the Club bulletin, says "it has been eaten as a sort of duty after the acridity was cooked out," but does not commend it.
With some of these the acridity is said to disappear in cooking, and a few mycophagists claim to have eaten all varieties with impunity.
The leaves are so acrid, that if they be much handled they inflame the skin; and the wild plant possesses this acridity still more strongly.
The acridity of its oil is modified in the seeds by combination with another fixed oil of a bland nature which can be readily separated by pressure, then the cake left after the expression of this fixed oil is far more pungent than the seeds.
A burning acridity of taste is the common characteristic of the several varieties of the Buttercup.
The native mode of preparing the oil is by roasting the seed; this imparts an acridity to the oil, which is objectionable.
Their acridity is owing to an oleaginous substance called capsicin.
Their singular acridity has been established by chemical researches, and science has contrived to extract the mordant formic acid from their bodies.
It seemed attracted by the acridityof the beautiful insect, as the moth is by the flame.
I should be tempted to think so, and to this extremeacridity should attribute their greediness for honey and other lubricating substances.
Possibly, the foregoing sentiments have taken a spice of acridity from a circumstance that happened about this stage of the feast, and very much interrupted my own further enjoyment of it.
Its sharp acridity is lost in cooking, but like all acrid Lactarius it is coarse and not very good.
It has a slight acriditywhile raw, which it seems to lose in cooking.
This species is quite common; and though very acrid to the taste, this acridity is entirely lost in cooking.
It is very acrid to the taste, and because of this acridity it is usually thought to be poisonous, but Captain McIlvaine says he does not hesitate to cook it either by itself or with other Russulæ.
This plant is slightly acrid to the taste and retains a faint trace of acridity even after it is cooked.
Skunk-Cabbage loses its odor and acridity with age, and should therefore not be kept longer than one season.
The word came very hard, but in his acridity he felt like not sparing himself; he wanted to get accustomed to the full obloquy.
He pleaded his cause like a strong man, and when he spoke of failure because of her preference for Mortimer, an acridity crept into his voice that meant relentless prosecution.
The term cholera has been in use since the time of Hippocrates, but he confounded with it every disease which seemed to him to come from acridity or corruption of humors, as colics and meteorism with constipation.
Indeed, the heat of the child's mouth at this time, and the acridity of the buccal secretions, are often sufficient to irritate and inflame the nipple, and even to produce superficial excoriation.
The genitalia, the anus, and the adjacent parts become eroded by the acridity of the discharges, and then become covered with the growth.
Now this is also the case in ileus; the inflamed intestine is unable to support either the weight or the acridity of the waste substances and so does its best to excrete them, in fact to drive them as far away as possible.
Its acridity is lost in cooking, when it makes a fair dish.
The favorable testing by Professor Peck adds weight to the opinion I have frequently expressed, that acridityof species when raw is no evidence whatever that they are harmful.
It loses its acridity in cooking, and though the caps are tougher than M.
It loses its acridity in cooking and is quite equal to C.
An intense acridity develops and increases when the juices of raw pieces are swallowed, and the salivary glands are much excited.
Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue.
Why does the Indian turnip lose its acridity on being heated?
This paper expressed the belief that the acridity of the Indian turnip and other plants belonging to the same family, was due to the presence of needle-shaped crystals or raphides found in the cells of these plants.
It was dissipated both by heating and drying, and by this means the acridity is destroyed.
Why do these intensely acrid, aroid plants lose theiracridity on being heated?
When the acridity of the former is perceived the sensation is more prickling than acrid.
In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed.
Up to this time the United States Dispensatory and other works on pharmacy, ascribed the following rather indefinite cause for the acridity of the Indian turnip.
For a little time no result was perceived, but as soon as the effect of the ether had passed away the same painful acridity was manifest as was experienced before the treatment with the ether.
More recently it has been intimated that the acridity may be due to some ferment or enzyme, which has been derived in part from the self-decomposition of protoplasm and in part by the process of oxidation and reduction.
The extreme acridityor intense pungency of the bulbs, stems, leaves and fruit of various species of the Araceae or Arum family, was recognized centuries ago.
In these the acridity was in every instance proportional to the number of crystals.
The acridity of the onion and horse-radish is perceived at once and often affects other parts than those with which it comes into direct contact.
If these needle-like crystals or raphides are the cause of the acridity of the plants just mentioned, why do they not produce the same effect in the fuchsia, tradescantia and other plants where they are known to be just as abundant?
A natural conclusion from this test was that the acridity might come from some principle soluble in ether.
At this point in the investigation the writer was inclined to the opinion that the acridityof the Indian turnip and calla was due to the presence of an acrid principle.
The question of the absence of acridity in the other two plants still remained to be settled.
Raphides--the Cause of the Acridity of Certain Plants.
In this report he expressed the opinion that the acridity of the Indian turnip was due to the presence of these crystals or raphides.
The reason why the Indian turnip loses its acridity on being heated can be explained by the production of starch paste from the abundance of starch present in the bulbs.
Heating and drying the bulbs dissipates the volatiles principle, and the acridity is destroyed.
These experiments show conclusively that the acridity of the Indian turnip and calla is due to the raphides of calcium oxalate only.
The United States Dispensatory and other works on pharmacy ascribe the acridity of the Indian turnip to an acrid, extremely volatile principle insoluble in water, and alcohol, but soluble in ether.
As soon as the effects of the ether had passed away, the same painful acridity was experienced as is produced when the plant itself is tasted.
They are acrid, but lose their acridity when boiled, the water being changed.
He endeavoured to moderate the acridity of the bile by opiates and other narcotics.
Gout has the same origin as intermittent fevers, for we must look for it in the obstruction of the pancreas and the lymphatic glands, accompanied with an acid acridity of the lymph.
The smallpox is occasioned by an acid acridity in the lymph, which gives origin to the pustules.
These absorbents seemed to him very necessary to correct the acidity of the pancreatic juice, and the acridity of the bile.
The itch is produced by an acid acridity of the lymph.
Dropsies are produced by the same acid acridity of the lymph.
All acute and continued fevers have their origin in this acridity of the bile.
The acid acridity of the pancreatic juice, and the obstruction of the pancreatic ducts, which are produced by it, are considered by him as the cause of intermittent fevers.
