A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines. / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Robert Eglesfeld Griffith
Date:
1851
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Credit: A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines. / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    —•— The precipitates referred to, if washed and dried, may be treated as directed above for arsenic in the dry or solid condition. [Note. In testing suspected matters obtained from the stomach, these (and, in cases of dea'' the stomach itself) must be cut or broken down, and boiled during at least three-quarters of ^ hour: if not sufficiently fluid, add distilled water. Strain, and witli addition of a small quanti of potash, again boil during a quarter of an hour, and filter. If this liquor manifests either alk liue or acid reaction, neutralize with potash, or with acetic acid, as may be required; then acid late it faintly with hydrochloric acid. Solution of nitrate of silver will remove the acid; a solution of muriate of soda will precipitate any excess of silver. The liquor may now be expe inented on with the above tests.] Treatment.—Abundant draughts of sweet milk, gruel, decoctions of starch, or mixtures; tickling the fauces, &c., to induce vomiting; the stomach-pump; emeti of sulphate of zinc. Hydrated sesquioxide of iron (newly prepared, v. process, pag 209) in large doses is the only antidote of reliance. Afterwards combat any inflammatory symptoms by the usual means, and let t' patient subsist, for a long time, wholly on the blandest diet._ All arsenical poisons have much the same action, and similar means are to be u for their detection and for counteracting their effects. Acid, Boracic—This is said to be very virulent; but no instances have been r corded of its fatal effects on man. Tests.—Not very soluble in water; soluble in alcohol, which, when inflamed, b' with a rich green color; soluble in the caustic alkalies. Acid, Carbonic—This gas is freely liberated in respiration, combustion, an fermentation, also in the calcination of lime, and is found in coal mines, wells, an cellars. , ^ . . , c ^ Symptovis.—Qcveoi drowsiness, giddiness, difficulty of respiration, loss ot muscurar power and sensibility, and coma. The whole body, but especially the face, appears swollen and livid; eyes are usually prominent, and retain their brilliancy for some *™re.sfc.—It extinguishes a taper if the proportion be above twelve or fifteen per cent.; lime-water, or a solution of subacetate of lead, is precipitated white by it. Treatment.—'KQmoYQ the person into the open air, and elevate the head, dash co water over him, apply stimulating frictions to the thorax and extremities, use artificr inflation of the lungs; as soon as the patient can swallow, stimulants may be cautious! administered; but, if there are signs of oppression of the brain, venesection is to performed. Acid, Citric.—In large doses, acts as an irritant poison; but no fatal case m t human subject has been recorded. Acid Hydrocyanic or Prussic—An extremely active, sedative poison. ;SVm»toms.—When the dose is large, almost immediate death ensues; in small quantities, it causes pain in the head and stupor, nausea, faintuess, vertigo, and 1 of sicrht, followed by difficulty of respiration, dilated pupils, a small vibratmg p and syncope, which will end in death, if curative means are not employed 3IorUd Appearances.—:^onQ; but a strong odor of the acid is exhaled from ^^^SS'—The (bitter almond) peculiarity of its odor. When a little potash is mix with liriuids containing this poison, and solution of sulphate, or scsquichlonde ot i added, a m-ayish-grcen precipitate is thrown down—which deepens to a 1 russian Di tint on addidon of a few drops of sulphuric acid. The nitrate of silver produces • white (ci/anidc of silver) precipitate; which, after being washed and dried, and tu held on a watch-glass over a flame, burns with a fresh rose-color, cyanogen bcmg the same time evolved. , xi ef^nmph if When a mixture is to be examined, contatning mat ers from tbe stomach cV . alkaline, it must first be neutralized by addition of sulphuric acid, then onc-eiJ.^