What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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Credit: What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Give white of egg, barley-water, arrow- root water, or milk. 5. Stimulants. Give stimulants if much collapse. 6. Wrap the patient in warm blanket, and put hot water bottles to the feet. 7. Morphine. Give a hypodermic injection of gr. J of morphine when the acute symptoms have subsided. AQUA FORTIS. See Nitric Acid. AQUA TOFANA. A deadly poison made and sold by the iniqui- tous Tofana or Tophiania, who is supposed to have poisoned with it more than six hundred people including two Popes, Pius III. and Clement IV. The Acquetta di Napoli was probably a solution of arsenious acid of un- certain strength. The Acquetta di Perugia was prepared by rubbing white arsenic into the flesh of a pig, and collecting the liquid which drained from it. The Aqua Tofana was