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.

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Poisoning symptoms.

• 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.