Russula foetens. *N.O.Fungi. Tincture of the fresh mushrooms.
Clinical
Blindness, chorea, convulsions, Enuresis.
Characteristics
Some species of *Russula are edible, and are much esteemed as a food on the Continent. Alphonse Barrelet observed the effects of eating cooked *Russula foetens, which produced a very severe poisoning. Hallucinations, muscular tremors, and clonic spasms recall the effects of *Agaric. The eye symptoms were even more pronounced, complete blindness lasting many days occurred, with this peculiarity of the pupil, that it was sometimes normal, sometimes dilated, and sometimes contracted.
Mind
Unconsciousness. Muscular spasms, deathly anxiety, dyspnoea. Hallucinations constant for three days after spasms ceased.
Eyes
Pupils at one time normal, at another dilated, at another contracted. Consciousness returned on third day, patient could hear but was completely blind.
Face
Cyanosis.
Stomach
Abdomen, and Stool. Nausea, colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, cold extremities.
Urinary Organs
Involuntary micturition.
Respiratory Organs
Dyspnoea.
Heart
Pulse small and contracted.
Generalities
Constant trembling of muscles, at times interrupted by tonic contractions, increasing to general clonic spasms with complete loss of consciousness. Patient recovered after two or three weeks.
Skin
The attack was followed by pseudo-erysipelas on elbows and painless furuncles over whole body, especially on scapulae and small of back.
