About latirism

Of the diseases caused by the use of food or other plant substances, latirism is one of the most interesting, in terms of the clarity of the clinical picture, the purity of the nervous phenomena and the comparative simplicity and stereotypicality of symptomatology. This disease is far from uncommon in some exotic countries, in former times and in Europe, it required quite a few sacrifices, but nowadays it is relatively rarely observed in our latitudes, for all this, many questions, especially regarding its pathogenesis and pathological anatomy, are still awaiting clarification