This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: …texture, and yet are repressed by very slight alterations of soil and circumstance. They are usually poisonous, and produce curious and diversified maladies. Women are less affected than men by their poison, and children escape more readily than men and women. Some of them, after sending their poison through the system, escape unchanged by some one of the emunctories, as the amanita muscaria, by the kidneys. As we are reasoning upon probabilities here, let me ask what animal poison, what mineral poison, offers so many and so strong analogies, to entitle us to esteem it a cause of the milk-sickness. LECTURE IV. MOST OF THE FUNGI ARE POISONOUS, AND PRODUCE DISEASES RESEMBLINO MARSH FEVERS. Not only are the fungi generally, poisonous to a singular degree, but the phenomena attendant upon their introduction into the system are so peculiar, as to arrest the attention both of the toxicologist and pathologist. In most cases, the poison lies dormant, for a time after its ingestion, then excites a morbid action of a febrile character, continued in some instances, remittent or intermittent in others, which is sometimes followed by abscesses or gangrene, as observed in typhoid fever and plague, occasionally by locked jaw and yellow skin, as in yellow fever. Even when using habitually, fungous food of a slowly poisonous quality, such as rye affected with ergotsetia abortifaciens, females of adult age, and the richer classes of society are, to a remarkable degree, exempted from the disease-producing potency, which exerts itself so disastrously in some parts of France and Switzerland, on the poorer and more exposed portion of society. Of late years, too, it has been found that many cutaneous disorders, and at least one mucous disease, are, if not absolutely dependent on, ..
