obably as a consequence of multitudes of the tiny
spores of the plants being carried into the nose and mouth by the
air.

Some hours after eating the _Amanitas_, the patient is taken with
vomiting, diarrhoea, cramps, and extreme prostration; in children,
convulsions may occur. Most unfortunately evidences of this poisoning do
not usually develop until some hours after eating it. As a consequence, a
considerable amount of the poison has usually been absorbed into the body
before the victim is aware that anything is wrong, and it, therefore,
becomes impossible, as a rule, to greatly help matters by attempting to
remove the offending material from the stomach by emetics.
Notwithstanding this it would be proper to administer warm water, into
which a small amount of mustard had been stirred, in order to assist
nature by washing out of the stomach whatever portions of the fungus
might remain. When exhaustion begins to appear, it should be combated
with doses of aromatic spirits of ammonia, and by the external
application of heat. As it is believed that atropine possesses some
antidotal powers to the poison of the _Amanitas_, this substance should
be injected hypodermatically in the usual dose as quickly as possible,
and an experienced physician should be called at once.

_Ivy Poisoning from Touch._--One of the two species of _Rhus_, is
exceedingly common in all portions of the United States, producing a
severe inflammation of the skin when handled, or even in some persons by
merely being near the plants or in the smoke of a fire where they are
burning. There are two varieties of the _Rhus toxicodendron_, one being
the shrub commonly called _poison oak_, and the other a climbing vine
generally known by the name of poison ivy. The _Rhus venenata_ grows in
swampy localities all over the United States, and is known as
poison-sumac, swamp dog-wood, poison-elder, and poison dog-wood. About
twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the exposure, the skin begins to
itch, and this is shortly followed by an inflammation accompanied by the
formation of numerous small blisters, and still later by scaling. It
should not be forgotten that the berries and other portions of these
plants are poisonous when taken internally, giving rise under such
circumstances to vertigo, faintness, dilation of the pupils, trembling,
confusion of the senses, and, in some instances, convulsions. Should it
be discovered that anyone has been exposed to p