Other names and synonyms
russ.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Russula foetens. N. O. Fungi. Tincture of the fresh mushrooms.
Nosology
Blindness. сhorea. сonvulsions. Enuresis.
Typical features
Some species of Russula are edible, and are much esteemed as a food on the сontinent. Alphonse вarrelet 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.
Psyche and consciousness
Unconsciousness. Muscular spasms, deathly anxiety, dyspnoea. Hallucinations constant for three days after spasms ceased.
Head, face, and ears
Pupils at one time normal, at another: dilated, at another contracted. - сonsciousness returned on third day, patient could hear but was completely blind.
Cyanosis.
11, 12, 13. Stomach, Abdomen, and Stool. Nausea, colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, cold extremities.
Cyanosis.
11, 12, 13. Stomach, Abdomen, and Stool. Nausea, colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, cold extremities.
Urogenital system
Involuntary micturition.
Chest organs
Dyspnoea.
Cardiovascular system
Pulse small and contracted.
Common symptoms
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.