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butter, two cups of weak tea, a little more than one-half a stuffed 

 egg, with lettuce and mayonnaise dressing. 



" Directly after lunch I smoked one half a cigarette as usual. 

 On finishing this, I began to wonder if this or the mushroom had 

 disagreed with me, on account of a slight " queer " feeling which 

 I cannot accurately describe, but it was so little at first that I dis- 

 missed it from my mind. In a few minutes, however, I gradu- 

 ally began to get a fullness in the head and a rapid heart action 

 as if I had taken nitroglycerin. Then I began to sweat, with a 

 feeling of heat over the body, so that my clothing was drenched, 

 even my outer clothing requiring changing later. At the same 



Fig. 4. Inocybe infida (Peck). 



time there was no nausea nor prostration nor other bad feeling, 

 and I attended to a man with a wound in my office and then to 

 other members of the family without difficulty, though a little 

 confused in mind perhaps. A little after this, perhaps forty-five 

 minutes after eating the mushrooms, I washed out my stomach 

 with a tube and later took about an ounce of castor oil. Soon 

 after, but long before the oil operated, I had a disagreeable sense 

 of pressure, almost pain, in the lower bowel, accompanied for a 

 little while by slight abdominal soreness or pain. All symptoms 

 gradually subsided and by evening I was as well as ever except 

 for a little feeling of exhaustion. 



