Amongst the cases which have occurred in this country, we may particularize that related by _Mr. E. Brande_, in the third volume of the _London Medical and Physical Journal_, p. 41, “J. S. gathered early in the morning of the third of October, in the Green Park, what he supposed to be small mushrooms; these he stewed with the common additions in a _tinned iron_[469] saucepan. The whole did not exceed a tea-saucer full, which he, and four of his children ate the first thing, about eight o’clock in the morning, as they frequently had done without any bad consequence; they afterwards took their usual breakfast of tea, &c., which was finished about nine, when _Edward_, one of the children (eight years old) who had eaten a large proportion of the fungi, was attacked with fits of immoderate laughter, nor could the threats of his father or mother restrain him. To this succeeded vertigo, or stupor; the pupils of his eyes were, at times, dilated to nearly the circumference of the cornea, and scarcely contracted at the approach of a strong light; his breathing was quick, his pulse very variable, at times imperceptible, at others too frequent and small to be counted, latterly very languid; his feet were cold, livid, and contracted; he sometimes pressed his hands on different parts of his abdomen, as if in pain, but when roused and interrogated respecting it, he answered yes, or no, evidently without any relation to what was asked. About the same time the father, aged forty, was attacked with vertigo, and complained that every thing appeared black, then wholly disappeared; to this succeeded loss of voluntary motion and stupor; in about ten minutes he gradually recovered, but complained of universal numbness and coldness, with great dejection, and a firm persuasion that he was dying; in a few minutes he relapsed, but recovered as before, and had several similar fits during three or four hours, each succeeding one being less violent, and with longer intermission than that preceding. _Harriet_, twelve years old, who had eaten but a very small quantity, was also attacked at the time with slight vertigo. _Charlotte_, a delicate little girl, ten years of age, who had eaten a considerable quantity, was suddenly attacked in the presence of _Dr. Burges_ and myself, with vertigo and loss of voluntary motion. _Martha_, aged eighteen, who had eaten a small proportion, was attacked with similar symptoms.” By judicious treatment they all recovered. Upon investigation _Mr. Sowerby_ determined the mushroom to have been a variety of the A. _glutinosus_ of Curtis (_Flora Londinensis_) the same with _Dr. Withering’s_ A. _semi-globatus_; and yet no notice of its deleterious properties is taken by either of these botanists.