Tartar Emetic (Antimony or Stib warm water freely, and stimulants, strong tea, or coffee. Ap ply beat.
Corrosive Sublimate (Biehloride of substance is used in solution and tablet form for disin fection as a surgical antiseptic, etc. It is a highly active and dangerous poison.
Treatment. — If seen immediately after swallowing, give an emetic; also at once abundant doses of white of egg, milk, mucilage; or mix up an arrowroot gruel, barley water, or flour and water, and give all that the patient will swallow.
Lead (Red Lead, Sugar Lead, White Lead, Paints).—These poisons cause cramps, paralysis, convulsions, giddiness, stupor.
Cause vomiting, give large doses of Epsom or Glauber salts, apply mus tard plaster to extremities, and give stimulating drinks. In acute attacks of lead colic the same treatment may be pursued, except to omit the vom iting.
Prussic Acid, a violent poison, is sometimes taken by children in eat ing the pits of stone fruits or bitter almonds, which contain it. The anti dote is to empty the stomach by an emetic and give water of ammonia. Apply cold water all over the body, followed by warm-hand friction. Ap ply a bottle of smelling salts to the nose, dash cold water on the face, and give stimulants, as whisky, etc.
Vegetable Poisons.—Known or un known herbs such as hellebore, bitter sweet, poke berries, hemlock, James town weed, tobacco, etc. The most of these cause vomiting, intoxication, stupor, etc. It is a safe rule to cause vomiting, give warm drinks, and stimulants.
Iodine or Iodoform.—Give freely starch or flour raixed in water, chalk, magnesia, and stimulants, if neces sary.
Blue Vitriol, Blue Stone (Sulphate of Copper).—Copper poisoning, due to substances which have been cooked in copper vessels. Give large drinks of warm water, emetic; raw eggs, milk, stimulants.
Nux Vomiea (Strychnine).—Strong tea, animal charcoal, inhalations of chloroform or ether, artificial respi ration.
Aconite.—This drug is commonly found in liniments and ointments. Give emetics; use stimulants, ammo nia, and brandy; apply warmth to ex tremities; mustard plaster over heart and calves of legs. If waconscious, use artificial respiration.
Arsenic.—This is a frequent cause of poisoning. It is found in insect powders, rat poison, and Paris giren, and is also used in coloring wall pa per and artificial flowers.
Give emetics promptly; large amounts of magnesia, lime scraped from the walls or ceilings, castor oil, sweet oil, or equal parts of sweet oil and limewater, or limewater alone, raw eggs, milk, stimulants.
Dialyzed iron may be obtained at nearly every drug store. This is a prompt and perfect antidote to ar senic.
Another class of poisons is known as the Irritating Gases—carbonic acid, chlorine, nitrous acid, and hy drochloric acid. To overcome the ef fect from these gases provide plenty of fresh air, inhalations of ammonia, ether, the vapor of hot water, or if handy inhale annyl nitrite or nitro glycerin. Produce artificial respira tion if unconscious.