Mushrooms and a Toxic Reaction to Alcohol

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FOUR acutely ill adults, 2 men, aged forty and seventy, and 2 women, aged thirty-seven and sixty-six years, were seen in St. Patrick's Hospital Emergency Room on the afternoon of June 15, 1964. All 4 complained of the same symptoms and insisted that they had been poisoned by beer. All had been in good health, with no complaints, while riding together in a car en route to pick wild mushrooms. They each drank a bottle of beer and immediately became ill. The initial symptoms were profound flushing of the face and a metallic taste in the mouth followed by paresthesia . . .

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