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Clinical Classification of Poisoning 



Group 



Species 













Name of Poison 



Effects on Body 



Poison Reaction 



I. Excites 



Ergot of r\-e. 



Ergotin. 



Heart, blood 



Not destroyed 



muscle fiber. 







vessels, 

 uterus. 



by heat. 

 Symptoms 

 after prolong- 

 ed ingestion. 

 Death rare. 



II. Destroys red 



Gyromilra escu- 



Helvellic 



Destroj's red 



Not destroyed 



blood cells. 



lenta (if old or 



acid or 



blood cor- 



by heat or acid. 





stale). 



phalline. 



puscles. 

 Oxygen 

 starvation. 



Not dissolved 

 out by hot 

 water. Symp- 

 toms in 6-12 

 hours. Death 

 3 days or re- 

 covery in I 

 week. 



III. Gastro- 



Russidae, 



A complex 



Inflammation 



Sometimes de- 



intestinal 



Laclarius, 



acid- 



of stomach 



stroyed by 



irritant. 



(if peppery); 



resinoid. 



and inflam- 



cooking aided 





Enloloma, 





mation of 



by gastric 





Boletus sensi- 





intestine. 



juice. Symp- 





bilis. 







toms in I hour. 





Partus slipticus. 







recovery in 24 





Cantharellus 







hours. 





auranliacus. 











Lepioia morgani 









IV. Gastro- 



Boletus luridus. 



Muscarine 



Gastritis and 



Not destroyed 



intestinal 



Amanita cother- 



choline 



enteritis 



by heat. Dis- 



irritant plus 



nata. 



nevrine 



with excita- 



solved out by 



effect on nerv- 



A. muscaria. 



"pilz- 



tion and 



boiling 5 mins. 



ous S3'stem. 



A. pantherina, 



atropin" 



paralysis of 



Symptoms in i 





Clitocybe illii- 





nervous 



hour — Recov- 





dens. 





system. 



ery in 24 hours 





Inocybe infida 







to I week. 





Pholiola autum- 











nalis. 









V. Stimulates 



Panaeolus cam- 



Pilz-atropin. 



Stimulates 



Dissolved by 



nervous sys- 



panulatus. 





nervous 



salt and water. 



tem. 



P. retirugis, 



P. papilionaceus. 





system. 



Symptoms in 2 

 hours, recov- 

 ery in 24 hours. 



VI. Destroys 



Amanita phal- 



Amanitin 



After a period 



Not dissolved 



nervous sys- 



loides. 



(Ford). 



of incuba- 



out. Not de- 



tem and vis- 



A. solilaria. 





tion ( I 0-12 



stroyed by 



cera after 



A . spreta. 





hours) de- 



heat or acid. 



period of in- 



Amanilopsis 





stroys cells 



Symptoms in 



cubation. 



volvala. 





of brain, 

 nervous sys- 

 tem, liver 

 and other 

 viscera. 



10 to 12 hours. 

 Death in 3-4 

 days. 



