Enchiridion medicum : or the practice of medicine / [C.W. Hufeland].

  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Date:
1849
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Credit: Enchiridion medicum : or the practice of medicine / [C.W. Hufeland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    promote and sustain it by copious drinks of milk and oil . sometimes vomiting does not take place; or it is only an imperfect vomiturition ; this is particularly the case after narcotic poisons having been swallowed. Here an emetic the best is tartar emetic, is to be given. Sometimes the insensibility of the stomach caused by the narcotic is so great, that this does not take effect, and recourse must be had to stronger emetics, as sulphate of zinc.—How far the stomach pump may be able to replace the emetic, time and continued use will teach. It seems to me, that poisons, which stick to the membranes and folds of the stomach are more perfectly evacuated by the self-active contraction ot the stomach, than by mere mechanical pumping. FINIS. University Press, JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER. 114 Nassau-street, New-York.