THE COMMON MUSHROOM AND ITS POISON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 335, 2 November 1882, Page 2

THE COMMON MUSHROOM AND ITS POISON.

'•' Professor ' Ppnfrqk^ ' of ( BreslaUjj ,laan lately made eiper^menis on|"'the common mushroom;,', iyf ! which 'the f oll6wsng;are' the "practical r^sulisj;— All'cdmmon'mußnrooms'al'^ poisonous, but cooking deprives, them in a greater ' or lea^r ' decree nßin Bi their' 1 poisonous tlualitiea'.'Thd repeated Trasnmg with cold water which they usually undergo to clean them tjakes away a portion of the poison, and' toiling does the 'rest j'frut the' Wiiter'iii' Kvhich<*ey have been Wiled' is 1 poisonous, and sbotild' be 1 carefully -golf 'rid of. Experiments made on" dogs showed that if a dbg'ateV'l^per^cent. of its own weight pi raw- inusnro6njl it fell fsibk 1 , but' •recovered' j'if it ftte^U per cent, the poison' had'a-ifiofS' 'violent but not falaTeffecfc/ arid' iMt'se 2 per cent, it was" 'inevitably '# if *l. The water in 'which the tou'snrobras had been boiled waß' ; fdr ' moire' 'pMsonoua then even the raw mushrooms ; while the rau'sfiWoiqi'tliiisfyoiM^oould be taken'witboUf'Kurf 16 th'e'&r/ount of 10 per oeirt'jb'f tWyfelgWoßte dog's body. Wftfrnib* "'witti 1 '<*61d [ water 'doeb»ntft' ; r4nibv3' all the 'poison, so that mushroom^ tbtis prepared were poisonous Htn^n taken ''itflafrge^uantiiies. Dried -mushrooms are still dangerous for from twelve to twenty ,tta,yd,l and also.. .the, watet; litif^tich. they have been boiledi-'They reqiire to be dried for ,at least a Whole fourm'o'n f tlia" y l#yra£. lfi * u <« •*-