Albertus Magnus Advises People Not to Eat Mushrooms in His Treatise De Vegetailibus et Plantis

Albertus Magnus advises people not to eat mushrooms in his treatise De vegetabilibus et plantis.

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Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) writes in his treatise De vegetabilibus et plantis about not eating mushrooms. “…stop up in the head the mental passages of the creatures [that eat them] and bring on insanity.”