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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Flight surgeon's handbook 
    Publication: Randolph Field, Tex. : School of Aviation Medicine, [1943]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9102641
    ... with abnormally dry skin. 264. PLANT POISONINGS, a. Ackee poisoning; vomiting sickness of Jamaica. (1) Cause: Ingestion of unripe fruit of ackee tree. (2) Occurrence: Jamaica and other islands of ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Guide to Nassau, Island of New Providence, Bahamas, West Indies : with illustrations from ... 
    Publication: New York : Lawrence & Allen, stationers and printers, 1876
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101183868
    ... grape, custard (Jamaica) apple, ground nut, bread fruit, ackee, citron, mandarin, shaddock, rose apple, fig, mango, abacado, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Jungle warfare 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, 1941
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/1308043R
    ... magnesium sulphate or calamine lotion. ffl 6. Akee (Blighia sapica).—a. Description.—A tree with smooth, oblong ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing .... 
    Publication: New York : Fowlers and Wells, 1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62421050R
    ... SHAPED, OB OEANOE QUINCE. The Aku, or Aker {Blighia sapida), is a native of Guinea and but ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - History of the Indian tribes of the United States : their present condition and prospects, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1857
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60341390R
    ... wabun, the east, or place of daylight, and ackee, earth, or land. 4 Wood's New England Prospect. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing .... 
    Publication: New York : Fowlers and Wells, [1853]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62421040R
    ... 3nAPED, OB ORANGE QUINCE. The Aku, or Aker {Blighia sapida), is a native of Guinea, and but ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Cultivated food plants 
    Publication: [New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1883?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101771863
    ... Beet. Bixa orellana, L . .West Indies, etc Fruit. Blighia sapida Konig 66 66 Blitum capitatum, L. . virgatum, ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - World's Fair : Jamaica at Chicago : an account descriptive of the colony of Jamaica, with ... 
    Publication: New York : Wm. J. Pell, printer, [1893]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101190056
    ... in which Otaheite apple trees predominate, interspersed with ackees, mangoes and cotton trees. The glory has departed ...