Show r TA DANGER N G E R IN I 1 r S POTATOES potatoes contain the poisonous alkaloid solan lne althO although LIgh this is ia not generally recognized new potatoes contain comparatively little of this poison unless they grow above the surface of the ground and have a green skin akin when they are generally known to be poisonous it Is not ho however Never known widely that old potatoes contain much of this poisonous principle and that m many it y cases of serious poisoning have occurred in pits lite summer when old po were used in 1892 and 1391 there was almost a wholesale poisoning among the troops of the german army ahe symptoms were headache in the front of the head colic diar regea vomiting weakness and aad slight stupor and in some ca cabet ageg dilatation of the pupils dr meyer investigated the matter maer and found in old potatoes kept in a damp place blare and beginning to sprout twenty tour four times as much as in new pota potatoes potato toem ea |