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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    6. Mucilaginous drinks. Such as white of egg, barley-water, linseed-tea. 7. Warmth.—Hot blankets, hot bottles to extremities, friction with warm hand. 8. Morphine. When the more acute symp- toms have subsided, linseed meal poultices to abdomen, and a hypodermic injection of half a grain of morphine. ARSENIC (Chronic Poisoning). “ It is an unquestionable fact that the national health is suffering from the use of arsenic and other poisons, in the manufacture of domestic fabrics to an extent not yet fully appreciated by the public.” Carr, Our Domestic Poisons. How taken. — Wall papers often contain arsenic. Not confined to green papers. Used in a great variety of colours, even in French white. Fact of a paper being marked “ non- arsenical ” is no proof that it is free from ar- senic. Common not only in wall papers but in candles, carpets, advertisement cards, play- ing cards, wrappers for sweets, ornaments for children’s toys, indiarubber balls, dolls, japaned goods, Venetian blinds, floor cloths, bookbind- ings, etc. See report by Lauder Brunton,