AGARICUS CAMPESTRIS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
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.