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

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    88/240 (page 76)
    eating fifty berries. Prognosis good, majority of cases recover. Children will take almost as much as adults. Treatment.—i. Stomach-pump or Emetic of mustard (a table-spoonful of the powder in water), or of sulphate of zinc (a scruple in water), or of ipecacuanha wine (two table- spoonfuls in water). Apomorphine may be used as an emetic. 2. Stimulants such as brandy, sal volatile or chloric ether. 3. Coffee. An enema of a pint of hot strong coffee. 4. Mustard to the calves of the legs, hot- water bottles to the feet, rousing by flicking with a wet towel, alternate hot and cold douche, interrupted current to limbs, etc. 5. Pilocarpine. Hypodermic injection of half a grain of pilocarpine (10 minims of the 1 in 20 solution) to be repeated if necessary, or two drachms of tincture of jaborandi by mouth or rectum. Pilocarpine is a much less powerful alkaloid than atropine, an overdose is not likely to do much harm. 6. Artificial respiration, to be maintained for two hours if necessary. Catheter to be used if retention. 7. In a bad cash or in the absence of pilocar-