MUSHROOM POISONING 



was made ill bj ii (?) before i v||| » and its )>.< • I name baa followed 

 in all subsequent reports which are based on ilii> :i I in- 

 ly. Hockauf would t ; i k « • reports of man] bad sorts with r< 

 Mcllvaine is verj emphatic thai aboul all Russnlas ai I. even 



R. emeticdj identified i>\ Peck. /.'. foetens Bmells ill. tastes u.. 

 and made Krombholz Blightlj ill. In 1817 ten deaths in Bohen 

 were credited to Russula. Murrill 1 includes /.'. • tin I ■ a in l>i^ i-.i 

 oiis list and credits ii with cholin, pilztropin and inuscarin and p 

 down R. foetens, R. nitida and /.'. fragilis ;iv mild) poisonous or hus 

 picious. Warren (Porl Huron) says, "1 have eaten every kind 



Russula I have gathered excepl R. fot U ns and i ne would care \<> 



eal that. Never anj bad effects. Greatesl fault is thai thej are 

 liable to be wormy. /.'. vesca, R. viresccns, /.'. cyanoxantha, and 

 R. alutacea are permitted in the Munich markets. The "fraglos 

 giftig" R. emetica is eaten in the Baltic province Esthonio after 

 parboiling, i Maass. 12 1 



Prey 18 says that poisoning i>.\ Russuki should be classed amo 

 the greatesl rarities. He reports two fatal cases, Btudied in the 

 greatest detail and from every angle, with thorough autopsy. The 

 clinical picture was nol unlike thai of .1. phalloides intoxication, 

 with gastro-intestinal symptoms dominant. The two boys thai died 

 (aged twelve and fourteen) ate the soup which they had prepared, 

 on Sunday evening and Monday morning, were ill Monday night, 

 attended school on Tuesday and became very ill thai night, as 'li<l 

 the father. They died on Thursday. Postmortem, the liver w 

 tli.it of A. phalloides fatality and the gastro-intestinal hemorrlu 

 ;iinl appearances were regarded as "characteristic of the irritant 

 action of Russula poison. It is assumed, in these t^ thai 



an essential change (spoiling) took place in the -"np between the 

 first and second meals. An official investigation of the abundant 

 remnants of the fungi ruled oul 1. phalloides and placed the blame 

 on spoiled Russula varieties. 



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Marasmins, the family of the internationally famous "fail 

 mushroom," has Long been credited with having the poii v 



wens and the doubtful peronatus. Mcllvaine would clear b 

 suspicion. We have no data bul we would again warn of the 

 of getting Clitocybi sudorifica and CUi l with 



If. oreades. The latter, moreover, has been found tough 



