n the other hand, the latter counteract
the effects of belladonna. But a knowledge of medicine is necessary for
dealing with these articles.

_Strychnia._--After emetics have been freely and successfully given,
the patient should be allowed to breathe the vapor of sulphuric ether,
poured on a handkerchief and held to the face, in such quantities as to
keep down the tendency to convulsions. Bromide of potassium, twenty
grains at a dose, dissolved in syrup, may be given every hour.

_Alcoholic Poisoning_ should be combated by emetics, of which the
sulphate of zinc given as above directed, is the best. After that,
strong coffee internally, and stimulation by heat externally, should be
used.

_Acids_ are sometimes swallowed by mistake. Alkalies, lime water,
magnesia, or common chalk mixed with water, may be freely given, and
afterward mucilaginous drinks, such as thick gum water or flaxseed tea.

_Alkalies_ are less frequently taken in injurious strength or quantity,
but sometimes children swallow lye by mistake. Common vinegar may be
given freely, and then castor or sweet oil in full doses--a
tablespoonful at a time, repeated every half hour or two.

_Nitrate of Silver_ when swallowed is neutralized by common table salt
freely given in solution in water.

The salts of _mercury_ or _arsenic_ (often kept as bedbug poison),
which are powerful irritants, are apt to be very quickly fatal. Milk or
the whites of eggs may be freely given, and afterward a very thin paste
of flour is neutralized.

_Phosphorus_ paste, kept for roach poison or in parlor matches, is
sometimes eaten by children, and has been wilfully taken for the
purpose of suicide. It is a powerful irritant. The first thing to be
done is to give freely of magnesia and water; then to give mucilaginous
drinks, as flaxseed tea, gum water or sassafras pith and water; and
lastly to administer finely-powdered bone-charcoal, either in pill or
in mixture with water.

In no case of poisoning should there be any avoidable delay in
obtaining the advice of a physician, and, meanwhile, the friends or
by-standers should endeavor to find out exactly what has been taken, so
that the treatment adopted may be as prompt and effective as possible.

CHAPTER III.

INK DEPARTMENT.

RED INK.--Two ounces Cochineal, bruised; pour over it one quart Boiling
Water, let it stand eight hours. Boil two ounces Brazil Wood in one
pint of Water, let it stand eight hours and then a