About Mushrooms: A Guide to the Study of Esculent and Poisonous Fungi |
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About Mushrooms: A Guide to the Study of Esculent and Poisonous Fungi Julius Auboineau Palmer No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 75 - Amanita group, and the pointing to it as the only one known to contain the subtile deadly alkaloid whidi is the subject of this article— Amanitine. In an article from his pen, contributed to the Moniteur Scientifique, of Paris, 1879, he says : "Mushrooms are unfit for food by decay, or other cause producing simply a disagreement with the system, by containing some bitter, acrid, or slimy element, or by the presence of a wonderful and dangerous alkaloid which is absorbed in the intestinal canal....
Page 77 - MY DEAR SIR,— In compliance with your request, I take pleasure in submitting to...
Page 70 - ... the toxic effects in introducing into the mouth of dogs, poisoned by design, fifteen centigrammes of mineral turbinth to provoke vomiting, and in making them take a great quantity of syrup of buckthorn. When the toxic substance was absorbed they were allowed to die — (' on les laissait mourir'). Recently I have sought an appropriate antidote ; an antidote of which the effects after absorption should be diametrically opposed in the system to those produced by the alkaloid of the mushroom, defined...
Page 50 - No one in the world can be happy without a hobby. Indeed for diverting our minds from the little crosses we all have to bear there is no earthly solace so healing as a subject in which we are intensely interested, to which our thoughts iiiay at any moment recur when weary of suggestions we would escape.
Page 67 - FREQUENT inquiry as to the best text-book on the subject of esculent and poisonous fungi leads us to notice here the two works whose titles are given in the note. The work of Cordier is by far the most complete and of the most practical use of any yet published ; while the more recent contribution to this branch of science made by Sicard contains evidence of the most patient research on the subject of the reproduction of fungi, a problem difficult of solution even by those best acquainted with this...
Page 70 - The above experiment is of value because suggesting a new element with which the physician may combat the effects of the poison after its absorption into the system by the patient. This absorption may take place not only by ingestion but by contact with the skin, as through the hollow palm of the hand, or even by the lungs, as I have proven by personal experiments made upon myself. In such a case the patient has all the symptoms of having eaten of the mushrooms, even to a peculiar leaden or ash-colored...
Page 71 - Solanacece, or night-shade family, especially in the hypodermic injection of atropine. The physician may readily infer that any person who, from six to eighteen hours after eating mushrooms, has symptoms not varying widely from those indicated in cholera, is under the influence of Amanita poison, and he must take action accordingly. The shorter the time between a meal on mushrooms and the appearance of any unfavorable symptoms, the less occasion to dread fatal consequences. So far as known the Amanita...
Page 68 - ... pressed and filtered. This tincture is given in doses of four to six grammes a day in certain catarrhal affections. Second, in the form of pills of five centigrammes of extract resulting from the distillation of the alcoholic mixture. These pills are taken in doses of three or four a day. Dr. Curie will soon publish the results of his therapeutic researches on this subject.
Page 69 - ... Bright's disease, and intermittent fevers. His experiments were not sufficiently extended to be conclusive, but Mr. Cordier considers them worthy of repetition, and adds : " Why should not the narcotic properties of this mushroom render it a substitute for opium ? It would have an advantage in the matter of its cost, for it asks for no culture. There are few wooded districts where it is not found abundantly.
Page 69 - ... and alvine canal by means of emetics and purgatives ; very appropriate treatment, without doubt, in case of the ingestion of some nauseous, acrid, or indigestible element, but not otherwise. For, in the first place, to quote the language of Mr. Cordier (and Mr. Sicard uses nearly the same words) , "Ordinarily four, six, twelve hours, and often still more time, passes before the first symptoms are manifest. And many persons have found their death who have eaten but a single piece of the stem of...