. Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician. of the stem. (Fig. 39-) 2. A scaly or close-fitting layer at the base of thestem. 3. Loose warts on the cap. 4. A milky juice (unless this is red). 5. Great brittleness, with giUs nearly all of equallength, and the flesh of the cap thin. 6. A honey-comb appearance of the gills, if theflesh tastes bitter, or the mouth of the tubes arered, or the flesh changes color when cut or bruised, 7. A cobwebby veil or ring when the plant is young. 8. A slimy cap and clay-colored spores
. Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician. of the stem. (Fig. 39-) 2. A scaly or close-fitting layer at the base of thestem. 3. Loose warts on the cap. 4. A milky juice (unless this is red). 5. Great brittleness, with giUs nearly all of equallength, and the flesh of the cap thin. 6. A honey-comb appearance of the gills, if theflesh tastes bitter, or the mouth of the tubes arered, or the flesh changes color when cut or bruised, 7. A cobwebby veil or ring when the plant is young. 8. A slimy cap and clay-colored spores. The illustrations* (Fig. 39 and Fig. 40) show thering at the base of the stem which is commonlyknown as the death-cup, because many mush-rooms with this peculiarity are very poisonous. For * Figures 39 and 40 are copies of the original photographs, kindlyloaned by George Francis Atkinson, Professor of Botany in CornellUniversity—after being used in illustrating his valuable book onMushrooms—Edible and Poisonous. The description of dangersigns is partly derived from the same work. 152 ACCIDENTS AND DESCRIPTION OF POISONOUS PLANTS. 153 this reason it is prudent never to eat such mushrooms,although experts know that some mushrooms withdeath-cups are not unwholesome. Most mush-rooms growing in open fields, with firm caps andpink or brown gills, are wholesome. Very fewfield mushrooms are unwholesome; and a mostcompetent authority says none are deadly. 154 ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES. Domestic Bmergencies. No less important than the emergencies thus farconsidered, most of which have a sort of public sig-nificance, are some that occur at the dead of night,in traveling, at the seashore, or in the mountains,where physicians are not known or are not to be hadpromptly; and those upon whom the burden ofmeeting them falls may be glad to have some simplesuggestions as to what they may do until they cancommit their interests to one better prepared toguard them. Cholera Morbu
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