Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1790
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Credit: Pratical hints on opium considered as a poison / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He gave to a boy, of twelve years of age, an ounce of common vinegar; a quarter of an hour after 40 gutts of L. Laud.; in half an hour it produced a fe- vere ficknefs at his ftomach, but no vo¬ miting. His head now began to be a little affedted, but this did not continue long; the pulfe remained fteady, except when the naufea appeared ; thefe fymptoms foon went off* and the boy was reflated to his ufual htuation. To a healthy young man he gave two ounces of the common vegetable acid, and in a quarter of an hour after 80 gutts of T. Opii.; two hours after taking it he complained of a little naufea and head- ach; thefe fymptoms continued only a fhort time, when he felt himfelf as ufual, except a little ficknefs about the ftomach. The Dodlor could difcover no change in E
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