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  • 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

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