Volume 1

Wood's household practice of medicine hygiene and surgery : a practical treatise for the use of families, travellers, seamen, miners, and others / edited by Frederick A. Castle.

Date:
1881
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Credit: Wood's household practice of medicine hygiene and surgery : a practical treatise for the use of families, travellers, seamen, miners, and others / edited by Frederick A. Castle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Ammonia, Caustic : PoTASsA, Caustic : Soda, C^austic : Lye of Wood Ashes, Quicklime. Copper Compounds : Blue Vitriol, Verdigris. Mercury Compounds : Corrosive Sublimate, White Precipitate, Red Precipitate, Vermilion. Zinc Compounds : White Vitriol. Iodine: / Tincture or Solution, f Antimony, Tartrated (Tartar Emetic.) 1 Give vinegar, two or three tablespoonfuls, in as much again w^ater, giving enough to neutralize the alkali. Lemon-juice may be given instead of the whole or a part of the vinegar. Then at once give olive-oil or milk. Do not give emetics or use the stomach- pump. Give white of egg very abundantly ; then warm water and a teaspoonful or more of ground mustard, to excite vomiting. After vomiting, give white of egg and milk. If egg is not at hand, give a batter of wheat flour in milk. Give fresh paste of starch freely. Paste of flour is next best. Then give a teaspoon- ful of mustard and warm water, and excite vomiting. Excite or facilitate vomiting by much warm water and tickling the throat. Give strong tea or decoction of cinchona bark. Lead Compounds : Sugar of Lead, White Lead, Litharge, Goulard's Solution. Barium Compounds: Silver Nitrate : ) (Lunar Caustic.) f Cantharides Preparations (Spanish Fly.) 1 JTiepttLO; y'al: ^ €oTTON Root, and its Preparations: ) Ergot, and its Preparations : f Oil, Croton : PENNYROY'i Savin : Tansy : Atropine: Belladonna (Nightshade): COLCHICUM : Digitalis (Foxglove): Hemlock (Conium): Henbane (Hyoscyamus): Stramonium (Thornapple): Veratrum Viride (Hellebore): - Castor-Oil Beans : CocculusIndicus : Nux Vomica : Oleander: Pake : Privet : ] Pulsatilla : | Spigelia : )■ Strychnia : | White Hellebore: J Give sulphate of magnesium (Epsom salt), an ounce or a little more, dissolved in water. Excite vomiting at once by warm water, a teaspoonful of mustard, tickling the throat. If sulphate of zinc is at hand, give it, ten to thirty grains, instead of the mustard, as an emetic. Give a teaspoonful of common salt in a teacupful of water. Give white of egg freely. Excite vomiting by warm water, a teaspoon- ful of mustard, and tickling the throat. E.xcite vomiting, giving warm water (with flaxseed or wheat flour gruel as soon as ob- tained) and tickling the throat. Excite vomiting, giving a teaspoonful of mustard with much warm water. Give milk abundantly. Excite vomiting by warm water and tickling the throat. Excite vomiting by warm water, a tea- spoonful of ground mustard, and tickling the throat. Meantime very fine powdered fresh charcoal may be given. (May be pow- dered by pounding it enveloped in a hand- kerchief). After vomiting (or before, if long delayed), give much strong tea. Give very finely powdered fresh charcoal largely (quickly pounding coal from a wood fire) as soon as possible ; excite vomiting by warm water, a teaspoonful of ground mus- tard, and tickling the throat; then give more charcoal and strong tea. Repeat the vomiting.