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lungs liavc sometimes been found gorged or even inflamed. Tlie 

 vessels of the brain are also sometimes very turgid. They were 

 particularly so in a case related by Dr. Beck, where death was 

 occasioned in seven hours by an infusion of the Ag. niiisGaria in 

 milk. See Ag. Muscaria^ apud auct. cit. sup. 



M. Orfila, by experiments on dogs, found vinegar so efficient 

 in dissolving out the active properties of some fungi as that they 

 could be rendered innocuous by being dissolved in it. If, how- 

 ever, vinegar is swallowed together with portions of fungi, their 

 poisonous influence is mucli increased. The common salt and 

 sulphuric ether were all serviceable after the use of evacuants. 

 HoJEfman's anodyne was also very efficient. An emeto-cathartic 

 should always be administered. The following prescription is 

 advised : 



IJ . Ant. Tartarizat. grs. iii. 

 Ipecac, grs. xxiv. 

 Sulph. sodse, gi-s. vi. 



This to be followed by oil, and subsequently by ether. Milk has 

 likewise been recommended. 



M. Duchanoit thinks that among poisonous fungi, one kind 

 act by stupefying, and the other by causing excessive pain. The 

 use of the Am. 2)^cudo-aurantiaca being followed by the first, and 

 that of the A. hulhosus by tlie second. M. & De Lens' Diet, de 

 M. M. ii. 202 ; Journ de Leroux, xvi. 376. 



At Turin they cook mushrooms by adding iron, one or more 

 nails being boiled with tliem (clous dans I'eau de cuisson) ; and 

 we are assured that by these means no one is poisoned (Bonafons). 

 M. Druge, of Vienna, recommends, for the poisoning by the mush- 

 rooms, a mixture of olive oil and pulverized charcoal. Bulk des 

 Sc.Mcd. de Feruss. xxiv. 07. M. Chansarel, of Bordeaux, states 

 that tannin will deprive bad mushrooms of their poisonous power. 

 Eev. Med., Juin, 1839. 



Some have observed certain agarics as peculiarly noxious to 

 animals ; also, that the poisonous pro})erties cliange with the local- 

 ities. For instance, in tlie middle of Europe many species are 

 eaten ; at Paris, the moselle and another species is eaten ; in Peri- 

 gord and Gascony, le cesse et I'orange are among the number of 

 those employed ; at Montpelier we may add four or five more, 

 according to De Candolle ; in Italy, Micheli states, they use as 

 articles of food a great number. It has been remarked, that as 

 we go north the poisoning by the mushroom becomes more fre- 



