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For the first the strongest emetics should be used, such as tartar- 

 ized antimony and apomorphine; and to bring about the desired 

 heart action, hypodermic injections of atropine, according to many 

 writers, in doses of T ^Q- to -$ of a grain, until about ^V f a grain 

 has been used. In very violent cases, and where the patient has 

 been long ill before aid has been summoned, even ^V f a grain 

 may be administered. "Freshly ignited charcoal or two grains of 

 one per cent alkaline solution of permanganate of potash may be 

 then administered, in order, in case the former or antimony emetic 

 has been given to absorb the poison, or, in the case of the latter 

 or apomorphine, to decompose it. This should be followed by 

 oils and oleaginous purgatives, and the intestines should be 

 cleaned and washed out with an enema of warm water and tur- 

 pentine." 



Phallin is a deadly poison, of uncertain chemical nature. Mr. 

 Chestnut, of the Department of Agriculture, from whose Farmers' 

 Bulletin on "Thirty Poisonous Plants" this description, as well as 

 much under Muscarine, is taken, says, "A large number of cases 

 of poisoning have been attributed to this fungus in ancient as well 

 as in modern times. The symptoms are characteristic; no bad 

 taste warns the victim, and usually the first effects do not appear 

 until from nine to fourteen hours after eating. There is then con- 

 siderable pain, and there may be cramps in the legs and other 

 nervous phenomena, such as convulsions and even lockjaw. In a 

 few cases there are spasms. The pulse is weak and either quick 

 or slow in its action. The pupils of the eyes are sometimes di- 

 lated. The abdominal pain is rapidly followed by nausea, vomit- 

 ing, and extreme diarrhoea, the discharges assuming the peculiar 

 'rice water' condition characteristic of cholera. The latter symp- 



7. The Chestnut colored Boletus, Boletus clintonianus. Slight- 

 ly reduced From the lowest specimen the stem has been cut away to 

 show its solid nature, while from the intermediate one part of the cap 

 has been cutaway to show its solid nature and the depth of the "pores." 

 Part of the slimy "veil" can be seen forming- an irregular "ring" on 

 the upper part of the stem of the last specimen. Of good flavor. 



