jection into the rectum
of a tablespoonful of glycerin mixed with a pint of soapsuds and
water. Coffee and atropine (or belladonna) are the best antidotes.

If a physician be secured, he will probably give a hypodermic
injection of atropine. If a physician is not procurable, the patient
should receive a cup of strong coffee, and a dose of ten or fifteen
drops of tincture of belladonna in a tablespoonful of water, if an
adult. This dose should be repeated once after the lapse of two hours.
The patient should be kept in bed, a bedpan being used when the bowels
move.

When the pulse begins to grow weak, two tablespoonfuls of whisky and
ten drops of the tincture of digitalis should be given to an adult in
quarter of a glass of hot water. The digitalis should be repeated
every two hours till three or four doses have been taken. The patient
must be kept warm with hot-water bottles and blankets.

=HOW TO KNOW MUSHROOMS.=--One-sixth of one of the poisonous mushrooms
has caused death. It is, therefore, impossible to exert too much care
in selecting them for food. A novice would much better learn all the
characteristics of edible and poisonous mushrooms in the field from an
expert before attempting to gather them himself, and should not trust
to book descriptions, except in the case of the few edible species
described hereafter. It is not safe for a novice to gather the
immature or button mushrooms, because it is much more difficult to
determine their characteristics than those of the full grown. As
reference books, the reader is advised to procure Bulletin No. 15 of
the United States Department of Agriculture, entitled "Some Edible and
Poisonous Fungi," by Dr. W. G. Farlow, which will be sent without
charge on request by the Agricultural Department at Washington;
"Studies of American Fungi," by Atkinson, and Miss Marshall's
"Mushroom Book," all of which are fully illustrated, and will prove
helpful to those interested in edible fungi.

There are no single tests by which one can distinguish edible from
poisonous fungi, such as taste, odor, the blackening of a silver
spoon, etc., although contrary statements have been made. Even when
the proper mushrooms have been eaten, ill effects, death itself, may
follow if the mushrooms have been kept too long, have been
insufficiently cooked, have been eaten in too large a quantity
(especially by children), or if the consumer is the possessor of an
unhappy idiosyncrasy toward mushroom