Forensic medicine and toxicology / by J. Dixon Mann.

  • John Dixon Mann
Date:
1893
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    FUNGI. Heu.otic s,.pto., o-^x —,rt;iv:;si-el: especially of vsion, mt, neurotic ; such cases coma. In some f ^^^^^^^^ f„^, of Jkaloidal poisoning, present all the appearances of certain following case Illnstrative o, the ff ! C Ite h-rtily of a dinner reported by Boycei;-A man, a„ecl n y ^^^^^^^ of^.Moh -*.'°7;,t:ld:m'etfoCe^t diarrhoea, and on the felt griping pam m the abdomen, vomiting continued followingmovning l>y vomit.ng ; <^<^-^'^^J^^^f ^His fac'e was then for two days when he sought -^^^.f ^J^^^^Xathing was short and dusky and hluish, the pupds were ^^^^^''^'^^^^^^ pain was rapid, the pulse weak and qu.ck ^h^^^^^^^ ^^^^ation. 'in spite experienced in the stomach, and there ^ as 1 of treatment the vomiting and diarAca contmued h sisting of dirty water with floccuh of lymph , ^e^^h ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ fourth day after the mushrooms were eatem The decea^ also partook of the mushrooms, was ^^^^^1^^^^: ,,,^J,,,, the recovered. The following case ^^Vorted ^j U^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ neurotic type of mushroom P-^T^-.t J mushrooms, with pain in .ere taken ill, about four l.o..s after e;^;^^ — J, p.le, the abclo.nen and « ^^^^^^^^^^ a the pulse slow, the 1^P« J j,^, two hours, violent shallow, and the pupils dilated and ^^.^^^^^^^t or ten clonic spasms, like those due to « ^^^^ Cases have xninutes, together with coma ; a^\^^- l^^^^f^fJ^J , ,,,1^ narcotic been recorded in which the symptoms have been ot a p y tyP<^- , nf the fundus amanita muscaria or Muscarine, the -^'P^^/^^^^^^^^ have been investigated Sy-fungus, has been .sdat . and rts p p ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ by Schmiedeberg and Koin« (who w ^^^^^ form) and subsequently by others An j and probably volatile substance, since the dried fungus no flv .nison The fly-fungus has been used by the poor m Siberia 11 1 r^hatk?as L intoxicating medium ; its active princip es eliniinated by the kidneys, and this is - j^^tt 1 av habituated to its use drink their own urme, or that of others *. 1 r^f the funf^us in order to produce intoxication. ''t^:.^tw'0,] i» a colourless, syrupy liquid, without taste orlr ItValkiinein reaction; is soluble in water and alcohol,