The London manual of medical chemistry, comprising an interlinear verbal translation of the Pharmacopoeia, with extensive ... notes ... together with the treatment and tests of poisons, and ... the theory of pharmaceutical chemistry ... / By William Maugham.

  • Maugham, William.
Date:
1831
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    zinc dissolved in a little water, and not in a large quantity of water, as is usually the custom. The throat should be tickled with the finger, if the patient can be persuaded to do it; but if vomiting cannot under these circumstances be excited, repeat the emetic of sulphate of zinc after the former dose has been taken about a quarter of an hour, or gr. viij. of sulphate of copper may be administered. Copious draughts of fluids ought by no means to be given, as the object is to have these antidotes in as concentrated a state as possible. Vinegar and acidulated drinks, which, be- fore the poison be removed, would only increase its energy, may afterwards be resorted to with consider- able advantage. When laudanum or opium has been long taken and comatose symptoms are present, blood- letting from the Jugular vein or arm is recommended by Orfila, which should be accompanied at intervals, with small doses of the sulphate of zinc, and the bowels ought to be freely evacuated with a clyster of strong infusion of senna and Epsom, or Glauber’s salts, to a pint of which, gr. iv. of tartarized antimony may be added. In confirmation of bleeding being advantageous, see an interesting case related by W. M Ross, Esq., in the Edinburgh Journal for April ] 823. The dashing of cold water over the body has been found service- able. A little cowhage rubbed on different jparts of the body might assist in keeping the patient awake. All the other narcotic poisons are to be treated similarly to opium, except hydrocyanic acid, and the parts of plants ccmtaining it; see as follows;— 2. Treatment of poisoning hy Hydrocyanic Acid, 4’C. There is no specific antidote for this acid in a che- mical point of view, because all the compounds which it forms with bases are poisonous. If it has been taken in a concentrated state, instantaneous death will