Mozambique funeral beer poisoning such as digitalis. "Digitalis purpurea", the variety of foxglove flower that is the normal source of digitalis, has become common in the area after introduction by European settlers; the foxglove variety that is native to Africa, "Ceratotheca triloba", resembles the poisonous plant but does not contain digitalis. In the "Forbes" article, David Kroll surmises that while crocodile bile is reputed by local villagers to be highly toxic, this is almost certainly false. Crocodile bile resembles mammalian bile which is universally found in the digestive tract of all higher animals. Mice experimentally fed extracts of the bile did not die, and
Nothing comes from nothing Nothing comes from nothing Nothing comes from nothing () is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology, such as is presented not just in the works of Homer and Hesiod, but also in virtually every internal system—there is no break in-between a world that did not exist and one that did, since it could not be created in the first place. The idea that "nothing comes from nothing", as articulated by Parmenides, first appears in his "Physics": The above, in a translation based on the John Burnet translation, appears as