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intravenously. In such cases atropin, indeed, offers the only 
hope of saving the patient’s life. If the symptoms seen in cases 
of fungus intoxication do not point clearly to muscarin as the 
chief cause of the trouble but rather to other poisonous principles 
such as the pilz-atropin of Schmiedeberg and Kobert atropine nat- 
urally should not be administered. Finally, whenever the patients 
show symptoms referable to such poisons as Harmsen’s “ pilz- 
toxin ” stimulants should be freely administered to tide the pa- 
tients over periods of weakness and depression. 
Amanita pantherina De Candolle 
Amanita pantherina is a common amanita in Europe, particu- 
larly in France and Germany where it is regarded as a deadly 
poisonous species. Boehm 36 has isolated muscarin from this plant 
in Germany so that the active principle is probably the same as 
that of the “ muscaria.” The species is very common in Japan 
and Inoko 7 believes that it represents Amanita muscaria there. 
Poisoning is. quite frequent in that country from its accidental con- 
sumption but the symptoms are by no means the same as with the 
true “ muscaria.” Delirium and hallucinations with visions of 
beautiful vari-colored objects predominate over the gastrointes- 
tinal symptoms, the effects being a little like those described for 
the Siberian “ muscaria.” The “ pantherina ” is also said to be 
used in Japan to produce mushroom drunkenness. Inoko has iso- 
lated muscarin from the Japanese Amanita pantherina and has 
also found in it a substance like the “pilz-atropin” of Amanita 
muscaria. Amanita pantherina is not common in America but 
Atkinson 37 believes that his species Amanita cotliurnata may rep- 
resent a light colored form of “ pantherina ” here. In the only 
report upon Amanita pantherina thus far published in America 
(Ford and Sherrick 38 ) no evidence was presented to show that our 
species contains muscarin. For the present both the real “pan- 
therina ” and Atkinson’s “ cotliurnata ” should be avoided by col- 
lectors. Should symptoms of muscarin intoxication follow their 
ingestion, the treatment should be along the lines already indicated, 
namely, complete evacuation of stomach and bowels and large 
doses of atropin. 
