dotes.--Lemon juice and water, vinegar and water half and half.

Treatment.--Milk, soothing drinks; sweet oil or castor oil, bland drinks
like flaxseed tea, slippery elm, albumen water, white of egg water. The
oil should be used last.

POISONOUS PLANTS. Symptoms.--Vomiting, terrible weakness.

Treatment.--Emetics such as warm mustard water, warm salt water, goose
grease, vaselin, lard, etc.; strong coffee, brandy; heat to extremities,
artificial respiration.

ROUGH ON RATS. Symptoms.--Violent burning in stomach, nausea, and
vomiting, retching, thirst, purging of blood and mucus, Suppressed urine,
cramps in legs, intense thirst, collapse.

Antidote.--Jeannel's antidote.

Treatment.--Emetics freely such as warm mustard water, warm salt water,
goose grease, etc. White of egg and milk first, and then sweet oil or
castor oil.

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SALTPETRE. Symptoms.--Intense inflammation of the stomach and bowels,
often with bloody vomiting and purging; lips and tongue swollen; violent
difficulty in breathing; characteristic odor.

Antidotes.--Lemon juice and water, vinegar and water half and half.

Treatment.--Milk, soothing drinks; sweet oil or castor oil, bland drinks
like flaxseed tea, slippery elm, albumen (white of egg) water. The oil
should be used last.

SANTONIN. Symptoms.--Object looks blue, then yellow, ringing ears,
dizziness.

Treatment.--Emetics such as warm mustard water, warm salt water, goose
grease, lard, etc.; stimulants, brandy, strong coffee.

STRYCHNINE. Symptoms.--Appear quickly. Terrible convulsions, in paroxysms,
devilish grin, the body is curved backward, jaw set.

Treatment.--Cause vomiting, with warm salt water, warm mustard water,
lard, vaselin, etc.; sixty grains of bromide of potash and thirty grains
of chloral hydrate by the rectum. Dark, quiet room.

SPOILED FOODS. Symptoms.--Vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, weakness, cold hands
and feet.

Treatment.--Emetics such as warm salt water until patient vomits freely;
or mustard water, lard, goose grease, vaselin, tickle throat with feather,
etc.

SULPHURIC 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 wall, mix it wi