alt water, vaselin, goose grease, etc. Keep person awake by walking,
slapping and cold applications; give strong coffee enemas.
COPPER. Symptoms.--Intense corrosion of the mouth and stomach, bleeding
and cramps in the bowels.
Treatment. Emetics.--Mustard water, warm salt water, lard, vaselin, etc.
Then milk and eggs, black coffee enema.
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. Symptoms.--Burning heat in stomach and bowels,
vomiting, diarrhea, with bloody stools, tongue white, shriveled:
suppressed urine, gums sore, salivation.
Antidote.--Milk or white of eggs; one egg for four grains of drug; milk,
flour paste.
Treatment.--Cause vomiting after the antidote has been given, and follow
with soothing drinks, castor oil.
CHEESE, Spoiled. Symptoms.--Vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, weakness, cold
hands and feet.
Treatment.--Emetics, such as warm water and salt until patient vomits
freely; or mustard water, lard, vaselin, tickle throat with feather, etc.
Enema to empty lower bowel; stimulants, such as strong coffee or whisky.
DEADLY NIGHT-SHADE. Symptoms.--Flushed face, red eyes, throbbing head,
pulse fast, dizzy, staggering, hot and dry throat, dilated pupils, scarlet
rash on the skin. Patient may be delirious and wildly so.
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Antidotes.--Tannic acid, twenty drops in glass of water. Emetics to
produce vomiting, such as mustard water, salt and warm water, goose
grease, vaselin, etc.
Stimulants.--Coffee to drink or by enema, artificial respiration.
FOWLER'S SOLUTION. Symptoms.--Violent burning in the stomach, nausea and
vomiting, retching, thirst, purging of blood and mucus, suppressed urine,
cramps in the legs, intense thirst, collapse.
Antidote.--Jeaunel's antidote.
Treatment.--Emetics freely, mustard water, salt and warm water, goose
grease, etc., then white of egg and milk and follow with sweet oil or
castor oil.
HYDROCHLORIC ACID, Symptoms.--The stomach and bowels are irritated and
inflamed, the mouth may burn and bleed; swallowing is difficult; "coffee
grounds" vomiting.; pulse feeble, clammy skin.
Treatment.--Usually the first thing to do is to give an emetic. Send for a
doctor and give an emetic. Then give chalk or, if necessary, take plaster
from the wall, mix it with a glass of water. Also three or four eggs (raw)
in a glass of milk can be taken.
HELLEBORE, WHITE AND GREEN. Symptoms.--Pain and burning in the bowels,
vomiting and diarrhea, slow weak pulse,
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