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mains white, they are good, but if it becomes 

 blue or black, there are certainly dangerous 

 ones among them. Where the symptoms of 

 poison have already taken place, the medical 

 assistant recommends an emetic, drinking 

 plentifully of warm water, and when the con- 

 tents of the stomach are brought off, to have 

 recourse to strong cordials, such as ginger- 

 tea and brandy, with laudanum, or cayenne 

 pepper made into pills. 



Barham describes the symptoms to be, that 

 soon after they are eaten, a hiccup seizes the 

 patient, then a cold or chilling all over the 

 body, attended with tremblings, and at last 

 convulsions and death. 



The most venomous sort is one that rises 

 out of the earth about six inches high, round- 

 ing and hollow like a bladder, red as scarlet, 

 full of holes like fine wrought net-work ; 

 which is most probably the Clathrus cancella- 

 tus. There is one kind of these mushrooms, 

 that is said to kill the very flies that settle 

 on them. According to Mr. Haller, says M. 

 Valmont Bomare, the Russians eat even the 

 mushrooms that the French consider the 

 most dangerous, and which they use to kill 

 flies ; if this be possible, we conclude they 



