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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
All are very variable in color, etc. 
But all agree in these things. They have gills, which 
are white or yellow, a ring on the stalk, a cup at the base, 
white spores, and are deadly poison. 
In Case of Poisoning 
If by ill chance any one has eaten a poisonous Amanita, 
the effects do not begin to show till sixteen or eighteen 
hours afterward — that is, long after the poison has passed 
through the stomach and began its deadly work on the 
nerve centres. 
Symptoms. Vomiting and purging, “the discharge 
from the bowels being watery with small flakes suspend- 
ed, and sometimes containing blood,” cramps in the ex- 
tremeties. The pulse is very slow and strong at first, 
but later weak and rapid, sometimes sweat and saliva 
pour out. Dizziness, faintness, and blindness, the skin 
clammy, cold, and bluish or livid; temperature low with 
dreadful tetanic convulsions, and finally stupor. * (Mtell- 
vaine and Macadam p. 627.) 
Remedy : “Take an emetic at once, and send for a phy- 
sician with instructions to bring hypodermic syringe and 
atropine sulphate. The dose is 1/180 of a grain, and 
doses should be continued heroically until 1/20 of a grain 
is administered, or until, in the physician’s opinion, a 
proper quantity has been injected. Where the victim is 
critically ill the 1/20 of a grain may be administered.” 
(Mcllvaine and Macadam XVII.) 
Wholesome Toadstools 
It is a remarkable fact that all the queer freaks, like 
clubs and corals, the cranks and tomfools, in droll shapes 
and satanic colors, the funny poisonous looking Morels, 
Inkcaps, and Boleti are good wholesome food, but the 
deadly Amanitas are like ordinary Mushrooms, except 
that they have grown a little thin, delicate, and anaemic. 
