. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 32 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS. or no value in rendering the muscarin insolu- ble in the stomach. If vomiting has not taken place, recently burned charcoal or two grains of a one per cent alkaline solution of perman- ganate of potash may then be administered, in order, in the cases of the former substance, to absorb the poison, or, in case of the latter, to decompose it. This should be followed by oils and oleaginous purgatives, and t
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 32 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS. or no value in rendering the muscarin insolu- ble in the stomach. If vomiting has not taken place, recently burned charcoal or two grains of a one per cent alkaline solution of perman- ganate of potash may then be administered, in order, in the cases of the former substance, to absorb the poison, or, in case of the latter, to decompose it. This should be followed by oils and oleaginous purgatives, and the in- testines should be cleaned and washed with an enema of warm water and turpentine. "Experiments on animals poisoned by the fly amanita and with pure muscarin show very clearly that when the heart has nearly ceased to beat it may be stimulated to strong action almost instantly by the use of atropin. Its use as thus demonstrated has been the means of saving many lives. We have in this alkaloid an almost perfect physiological antidote for muscarin, and therefore in such cases of poi- soning its use should be pushed as heroically as the symptoms will warrant. The presence of phallin in Amanita muscdria is possible, and its symptoms should be looked for in the red color of the blood serum discharged from the intestines. Its treatment, which is difficult, is discussed under Amanita phalloides. "It is well known that in some parts of Europe the fly amanita, after the removal of the poison by treatment with vinegar, is a common article of food. It was interesting to discover not long since that among some of our own people a similar practice prevails. Though most of the colored women of the markets look upon the species with horror, one of them recited in detail how she was in the habit of cooking it. She prepared the stem by scraping, the cap by removing the gills and peeling the upper surface. Thus dressed the mushrooms were first boiled in salt and water, and afterwa
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