.

[TAKE CARE OF PENCE, POUNDS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.]

1362. Oxalic Acid.

E. Vomiting and acute pain in the stomach, general debility, cramps,
and death.

A. Chalk.

T. Give large draughts of lime water or magnesia.

1363. Spanish Flies.

E. Acrid taste, burning heat in the throat, stomach, and belly,
bloody vomitings, colic, purging, retention of urine, convulsions,
death.

T. Large draughts of olive oil; thin gruel, milk, starch enemas,
linseed tea, laudanum, and camphorated water.

1364. Poisonous Fish.

(_Old-wife; sea-lobster; mussel; tunny; blower; rock-fish, &c._)

E. Intense pain in the stomach after swallowing the fish, vomiting,
purging, and sometimes cramps.

T. Give an emetic; excite vomiting by tickling the throat, and
plenty of warm water. Follow emetics by active purgatives,
particularly of castor oil and laudanum, or opium and calomel, and
abate inflammation by the usual remedies.

1365. Bites of Reptiles.

(_Viper; black viper; Indian serpents; rattle-snake._)

E. Violent and quick inflammation of the part, extending towards the
body, soon becoming livid; nausea, vomiting, convulsions, difficult
breathing, mortification, cold sweats, and death.

T. Suppose that the wrist has been bitten: immediately tie a tape
between the wound and the heart, scarify the parts with a penknife,
razor, or lancet, and apply a cupping-glass over the bite,
frequently removing it and bathing the wound with volatile alkali,
or heat a poker and burn the wound well, or drop some of Sir Wm.
Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid into the wound, or cauterize the bite
freely with lunar caustic, but not till the part has been well
sucked with the mouth, or frequently washed and cupped. The strength
is to be supported by brandy, ammonia, ether, and opium. Give plenty
of warm drinks, and cover up in bed.

1366. Mad Animals, Bite of.

E. Hydrophobia, or a fear of fluids.

T. Tie a string tightly over the part, cut out the bite, and
cauterize the wound with a red-hot poker, lunar caustic, or Sir Wm.
Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid. Then apply a piece of
"spongio-piline," give a purgative, and plenty of warm drink.
Whenever chloroform can be procured, sprinkle a few drops upon a
handkerchief, and apply to the nose and mouth of the patient before