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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 gradually 

 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 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 that, perhaps forty-five minutes after eat- 

 ing the mushroom, 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 sub- 

 sided and by evening I was as well as ever except for a little feel- 

 ing of exhaustion. 



" My wife, 25 years old, ate one whole slice of toast with mush- 

 rooms, two half eggs stuffed with lettuce and mayonnaise, tea, 

 bread and butter. About half an hour later she felt nauseated 

 and dizzy and lay down. I gave her five glasses of warm water, 

 after which she vomited the egg, but saw no mushrooms. She 

 then took castor oil. 



" Mrs. A., 65 years old, ate the same amount of mushrooms, 

 several slices of bread and butter, a cup of tea, but no eggs nor 

 salad. When asked, said she felt slight indigestion, but other- 

 wise well. 



" My son, 5 years old, ate same amount, but no eggs nor salad. 

 Immediately after lunch he had a diarrheal movement containing 

 mushrooms. He was given ipecac and warm water and vomited 

 some mushrooms. 



" Sophie, maid, aged 30, tasted mushrooms. Felt nauseated 

 soon after. Given mustard and water, but did not vomit. Later, 

 castor oil and was purged and somewhat prostrated. Hattie, 

 maid, aged 38, tasted mushrooms. Belched gas soon after. Not 

 sick. Esther, maid, aged 24, tasted ; no effects. 



" There was no peculiar taste to the cooked mushrooms, perhaps 



