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An introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places.

Poisons. --- Hazardous substances --- Toxicology.

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Poisons --- Pesticides --- Safety measures. --- Safety measures.

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Poisons --- Accidental poisoning in children. --- Home accidents --- Safety measures. --- Prevention.

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The work above mentioned, written by the Franciscan Juan Gil Zamora, is a small encyclopaedia, alphabetically organised, whose aim is to put forward remedies against poisons of mineral, vegetable and animal origin. Within the animal field he devotes special attention to the difference existing between those extraordinary animals extraordinarily harmful and those that, even though small in size, are annoying for man's life, such as fleas, bugs and mosquitoes. This piece of work was first done filtering the manuscripts 1404 of the Dukes of Urbino's collection, from the Apostolic Vatican Library in Rome (XIV c.) and MF 139 of the Bartolome March foundation Library, in Majorca (XV c.). Starting from these manuscripts and taking into account the first edition of the work done by Manuel de Castro ("The treatise Contra Venena by Fr. Juan Gil de Zamora, Franciscan" AIA, Second époque nr. 141, 1976, 117 pp), we did the first edition that takes into account both manuscripts, as well as reading corrections to the first edition. We have also effected the translation of the work , the first one effected adding a set of notes that include text of authors dealing in similar topics, older or contemporary to the author. In the notes we offer ample comment on the names of the plants, as well as some clearing terms of a medical character. As a prologue we have effected a study of the work within the context of the time and the literary production of the author, who was a very interesting character of the entourage of Alfonso X and Sancho IV. In this preliminary study we do a research into the sources that he uses that proves the relation of this work with Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum Naturale and Avicena's Liber Canonis. As a complement to our work we add some indexes relative to the Latin text, that have been organised under four epigraphs: plants and their derivatives, animals and derived substances, minerals and names of people, place and work.

Poisonous animals --- Poisons --- Antidotes --- Joannes Aegidius, - Zamorensis, - 1240 or 1241-approximately 1316. - Liber contra venena et animalia