Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician . with mushrooms is usually due tofailure to distinguish between those that are harmless and thosethat are injurious, from an undue reliance upon certain old-fash-ioned rules that are not trustworthy. The safest hne of conductis to consider dangerous all mushrooms that are decaying orinfected; all that grow in the woods; all that have white gills underthe cap; all that are in the immature button-stage; and all thathave the following characteristics: 1. A cuplike formation at t
Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician . with mushrooms is usually due tofailure to distinguish between those that are harmless and thosethat are injurious, from an undue reliance upon certain old-fash-ioned rules that are not trustworthy. The safest hne of conductis to consider dangerous all mushrooms that are decaying orinfected; all that grow in the woods; all that have white gills underthe cap; all that are in the immature button-stage; and all thathave the following characteristics: 1. A cuplike formation at the base of the stem. (Fig. 40.) 2. A scaly or close-fitting layer at the base of the stem. 3. Loose warts on the cap. 4. A milky juice (unless this is red). 5. Great brittleness, with gills nearly all of equal length, andthe flesh of the cap thin. 6. A honey-comb appearance of the gills, if the flesh tastesbitter, or the mouth of the tubes are red, or the flesh changes colorwhen cut or bruised. Il6 ACCIDENTS AND EMKRGENCIES 7. A cobwebby veil or ring when the plant is young. 8. A slimy cap and clay-colored Fig. 40.—Poisonous mushroom, showing death-cup at base of stem. The illustrations* (Fig. 40 and Fig. 41) show the ring at the base •Figures 40 and 41 are copies of the original photographs, kindly loaned by GeorgeFrancis Atkinson, Professor of Botany in Cornell University—after being used in illus-trating his valuable book on Mushrooms—Edible and Poisonous. The descriptionof danger signs is partly derived from the same work. DEgCRIPTION OF POISONOUS PLANTS 117 ^, jr JB^^ S^BI^k -^^ k * j^^^^^^Ki ^mL^^^B^B r^^m ,-i- A @ I Il8 ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES of the stem which is commonly known as the death-cup,because many mushrooms with this peculiarity are very poison-ous. For this reason it is prudent never to eat such mushrooms,although experts know that some mushrooms with death-cupsare not unwholesome. Most mushrooms growing in open fields,with firm caps and pi
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