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toxicity is not weakened after standing a year nor has it lost 

 its poisonous properties after remaining dry for six years; the 

 poison is still held in the tissues of the mushroom after boiling 

 with water. 



Therefore it is very unwise to spread broadcast the erroneous 

 idea that all poisonous mushrooms may be rendered harmless by 

 boiling zinth zvater and then zvashing repeatedly in cold zmter." 



