Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : how to prevent accidents becoming more serious / by James Cantlie.

  • James Cantlie
Date:
1884
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Credit: Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : how to prevent accidents becoming more serious / by James Cantlie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    condition. The patient will be found speechless, motionless, insensible, and with a bloated countenance. The odour of the breath, the pallor of the face, the weak pulse, the slow snoring respirations, and the dilated pupil, may, collectively, decidedly pronounce this to be what we are discussing ; but mistakes are so frequently made between this and other serious conditions, notably apoplexy, that you must always give the patients the benefit of the doubt, and take them to a hospital or a doctor instead of sending them, on your own responsibility, to a police cell. When you are sure of the condition of your charge, and no medical man at hand, induce vomiting and prevent collapse by applying heat without and within. Simple directions for the treatment of poisoning. —On all occasions send for a doctor at once. A. If you do not know what the poison is— 1. Get mustard, eggs, flour, milk, and tea. 2. Administer a tablespoonful of mustard in a teacupful of warm water as an emetic. [You may also send to the chemist for an emetic in case the mustard should fail. The chemist will know what to send, either 20 grains sulphate of zinc, or 1 oz. ipecacuanha wine, for one dose.] 3. Have the tea being made ready for use. 4. Break two or three eggs into a basin, beat them up, and administer at once ; or give a handful of flour beat up into a cream, with water; a cupful of milk will do some good, if neither of these be handy. 5. Vomiting will now probably come on, if it does not do so within ten minutes, repeat the mustard emetic, or give the emetic the chemist has sent, if it has come. 6. When vomiting has ceased give the patient a cupful of strong hot tea and put him to bed. B. If you do not know what the poison taken was, but find stains on the lips— N.B.—Do not give an emetic. I. Give at once a wine-glassful of olive (salad or sardine) oil, linseed oil, cod-liver oil, cestor oil, or almond oil (not oil of almonds').