apL 1911.3 KA WAMUBA.—ON A POISONO US FUNG US. 105 . 



Iso/^ then the director of the Fukushima Hospital, who examined 

 the patients, wondered at their strange condition, and published 

 an article about it, in a Japanese medical magazine.'^ 4.) The 

 second place was Wakamatsu, a town in Kitaaidzu-gori, Here 

 five men of two families were poisoned by an unknown fungus. 

 Two physicians, S. HosHi and Z. Morikawa examined these 

 men and reported the matter to the Head Office of Kitaaidzu- 

 gori. The officer in charge sent the report together wnth some 

 specimens of the fungus to Iso, w^ho again sent them to Dr. 

 Inoko for the purpose of a dispensary examination. 



Comparing these four cases, it is noticed that all the patients 

 suffered from a similar complaint i. e. an acute inflammation of 

 the same part of the limbs. Moreover, the common names of 

 the fungi are the same or closely allied in meaning, and vsre may 

 safely conclude that the fungi in all cases were of one and the 

 same species. 



Inoko was paying special attention to Japanese poisonous 

 fungi, and as soon as he was provided with some dry specimens 

 of the above mentioned, he commenced his investigation, which 

 he thought very important as the effects of the cases, recorded 

 dbove, were strange to mycologists as well as to pharma- 

 cologists. But the few specimens he had were too poor to yield 

 sufficient data for his examination, and he was compelled to 

 limit himself in publishing only a short description of the fungus 

 and a note on the poisons in the journal of Tokyo medical 

 society. ^^ 



His description of the fungus is very imperfect and insufficient 

 to indicate the real species. He determined it to be one of the 

 Agaricus, expecting at some future time when he would have 

 more ample material to complete his investigation. This, I 

 believe, would have been done if he had not died suddenly in 

 November, 1893. I can not but regret the untimely death of 



, 1) TsUNE Iso, Igakushi. 



2) Tokyo Igakkai Zasshi (journal of Tokyo medical society) Vol. V, no. 4, p. 

 219 (1891). 



3) Tokyo Igakkai Zasshi, Vol. V, no. 4, p. 228 (1891). 



