AGARICUS CAMPESTRIS.
Agaricus campestris, L. Common mushroom.
This mushroom, common in the United States and in Europe, is
esculent; stem only two to three inches high.
Authority.
Poisoning symptoms.
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Slight delirium. ► Eyes
sunken, with livid circle. ► Face humid, hippocratic. ► Tongue red and parched. ►
Nausea. ► Vomiting and purging of liquid matter. ► Abdomen retracted. ► Great
abdominal pain at intervals. ► Severe colic. ► Purging and vomiting of liquid matter. ►
Pulse hard, weak, rapid, irregular. ► Pulse feeble. ► Respiration irregular. ►
Depraved habit, leading to external suppuration and gangrene. ►
Severe cramps. ► Greenness of the skin. ► Formation of abscesses, which discharge a thin,
ill-conditioned pus, and pass rapidly into suppuration and gangrene. ►
Skin cold, covered with cold sweat. ► Kind of tertian
fever. ► Somnolency.® 2000
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