bark, alkalies, gall nuts.

T. If there is much pain in the belly or stomach, apply leeches.
Give large draughts of milk and water, to encourage vomiting.

1347. Mercury.

(_Corrosive sublimate; calomel; red precipitate; vermilion; turbeth
mineral; prussiate of mercury_.)

E. Acid metallic taste; tightness and burning in the throat; pain in
the back part of the mouth, stomach, and bowels; anxiety of
countenance; nausea; and vomiting of bloody and bilious fluids;
profuse purging, and difficulty of making water; pulse small, hard,
and quick; skin clammy, icy coldness of the hands and feet; and
death in 24 or 36 hours.

A. White of eggs mixed with water, given as above; milk; flour and
water, mixed pretty thick; linseed tea; and barley water.

T. Give large draughts of warm water, if you cannot get anything
else; strong emetic of ipecacuanha, the stomach-pump, a dose of
castor oil and laudanum. Apply poppy-head fomentations to bowels,
and leeches if the belly is very tender.

1348. Antimony.

(_Tartar emetic; butter of; Kermes' mineral_.)

E. A rough metallic taste in the mouth, nausea, copious vomitings,
sudden hiccough, purging, pains resembling those caused by colic,
frequent and violent cramps, sense of choking, severe heartburn,
pain at the pit of the stomach, difficult breathing, wildness of
speech, cramp in the legs, and death.

A. Decoction or tincture of galls; strong tea; decoction or powder
of Peruvian bark.

D.A. White vitriol, ipecacuanha, as emetics.

T. Give large draughts of water, or sugar and water, to promote
vomiting; apply leeches to the throat and stomach if painful; and
give one grain of extract of opium dissolved in a wineglassful of
sugar and water, as soon as the vomiting ceases, and repeat three
times at intervals of a quarter of an hour; and finally, one grain,
in a little castor oil emulsion, every six hours.

1349. Tin.

(_Butter of tin; putty powder_.)

E. Colic and purging.

A. Milk.

T. Give warm or cold water to promote vomiting, or tickle the throat
with a feather.

1350. Zinc.

(_White vitriol; flowers of; chloride of_.)

E. An astringent taste, sensation of choking, nausea, vomiting,
purging, pain and burning in the throat and stomach, difficult
breathing, pallor and coldness of the surface, pinched face,