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378 tains no antidote is known. It is all the more to be guarded againstin its pure white form, resembling the lepiotae or edible mushrooms,but, as a rule, the upper surface of the cap is grayish, brownish orgreenish. (The different edible mushrooms additional to the whitevariety as referred to above have caps that are slaty gray, reddishbrown, or brownish yellow.) In general, it might be remarked that there is risk in taking into thesystem any part of a plant the properties of which are not known.The leaves of the wild black cherry, for example, are quite poisonous,especially when dried, and the seeds of the Jamestown weed are moredeadly than the rest of the plant; but the physician may make properuse of belladonna, strychnine, and aconite. |
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