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and of the digestive juices and reproduces in animals the lesions 
of phalloides intoxication in man 
Treatment 
There i tisfactory method of treating individuals poisoned 
by the deadly Amanita. It is essential that competent medical 
advice be obtained as‘soon as possible and every effort made to 
rid the alimentary canal of the noxious material in the hope of 
doing so before enough poison is absorbed to bring on fatal results. 
Active emetics and purgatives should be administered at once 
and in case these are not effective the stomach should be washed 
out and the lower bowel irrigated. Even then, it is frequently 
impossible to prevent the absorption of the poison which takes 
place with great rapidity. In the later stages stimulants should 
be employed with great freedom in the hope of tiding the patient 
over the periods of weakness. Narcotics should be employed to 
relieve the intense pain and whenever convulsive movements are 
seen. Atropin has no effect in Amanita phalloides intoxication and 
no reliance should be placed upon the drug in poisoning by the 
eadly Amanita. Efforts to manufacture a curative serum by the 
immunization of animals with the poisons in this fungus have 
thus far been unsuccessful. 
PoIsONING By AMANITA MUSCARIA LINNAEUS 
Botanical features 
Poisoning by Amanita muscaria or the ‘‘fly agaric”’ is, next to 
that felisee the ingestion of Amanita phalloides, the most 
frequent variety of se ae intoxication. This is Primarily 
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bution over the surface of the world. e Amanita muscaria, 
in addition, more than other fungi is subject to great variations 
n color, size, and markings due to geographical distribution and 
ee changes. This may possibly account for the numerous 
accidents in America resulting from mistaking Amanita muscaria 
for Amanita caesarea, one of our most beautiful and highly prized 
edible Amanitas. Accidents of this nature have occurred most 
frequently among foreigners, a fact which seems to indicate the 
