In a message dated 1/2/00 4:00:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<<  Before they were widely eaten in the 1700's, lovers who wanted to commit
 suicide ate Love Apples, which we now call Tomatoes.     >>
How did this kill them?


<<Consumption, I believe the malady was
 called, is now days attributed to lead poisoning, and was a major source of
 death from Roman times until the beginning of the 1800's>>
Consumption refers to tuberculosis.
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