The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins.

Albert A. Hopkins

Date:: 1910

Credit: The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(Lightning) (Poison Ivy) With this solution coat the shoe soles several times and allow the liquid to soak in. This medium, which has been named “leather-sole fluid” by E. Soxhlet, also preserves the leather. Lightning. A person struck by lightning is usually rendered unconscious or nearly so. A temporary paralysis of the body may re¬ sult for a while. When death takes place it is from shock to the brain and nervous system. When the person exhibits little or no sign of life, the clothing should be removed rapidly and the body subjected to a dashing of cold water, then dried and placed in bed and warmth applied, par¬ ticularly to the pit of the stomach, by means of hot cloths or rubber bottles filled with hot water. Artificial respiration should be kept up for an hour or so, or until natural breathing is resumed. Re¬ coveries after an hour of supposed death are on record. Brandy or aromatic spirits of ammonia should be given. Meats, Poisonous. The eating of meat from diseased ani¬ mals is often followed by symptoms of a poisonous character. Animals otherwise in perfect health, but which have been butchered and prepared for food after long and exhaustive confinement, are unfit for eating. Not only is the meat of such animals lacking in nutritive character, when compared with the meat of animals killed from the pasture without excite¬ ment, or after being kept until proper recovery from the effects of the journey to market, but it is much less savory, and shows a disposition to decompose much more readily. It has been estimated by competent authorities that between the two kinds of meat there is, so far as nutri¬ ment is concerned, a difference of nearly fifty per cent, in favor of the meat of healthy animals butchered after complete recovery from the excitement and fatigue of drive or carriage to market. The ad¬ ditional cost per pound of meat to cover the expenses of extra care and precaution before butchering would amount to but a small fraction of the percentage named, leaving the rest of it a true profit to the consumer. The eating of this overdriven meat is sometimes followed by symptoms of irrita¬ tion of the stomach and bowels ; but these symptoms can scarcely be said to be of a poisonous character, in the ordinary sense of the word, however much the use of [ such meat may temporarily derange the health. Mushrooms. When poisoning from eating mushrooms) takes place, the contents of the stomach should at once be evacuated with an emetic. After vomiting has commenced, it should be promoted by draughts of warm water or barley water, but particu¬ larly by drinking copiously of warm milk and water, to which sugar has been added. What has passed into the bowels should be hurried out as fast as possible, with some cathartic, before further absorption into the blood can take place. If there is much prostration, some easily procured stimulant may be useful, as aromatic spirits of ammonia or brandy. A very excellent antidote is tincture of belladonna, ten drops in a little water every hour, until four or five doses have been taken. Poison Ivy. 1. —Symptoms: Contact with, and with many persons the near approach to, the vine gives rise to violent erysipela¬ tous inflammation, especially of the face and hands, attended with itching, red¬ ness, burning and swelling, with watery blisters. Treatment: Give saline laxa¬ tives and apply weak lead water and laudanum, or lime water and sweet oil, or bathe the parts freely with spirits of niter. Anointing with oil will prevent poisoning from it. 2. —It is claimed tha»t if those parts which have been touched by the poison¬ ous plant be promptly washed with 70 per cent, alcohol there will be no mani¬ festations of the poisonous symptoms. Alcoholic solution .of sugar of lead is said to give prompt relief when the poison has been effective. 3. —One of the best preparations is the fluid extract of serpentaria, freely ap¬ plied to the affected part. 4. —Bicarb, soda, 375 gr.; powdered borax, 150 gr.; carbolic acid, 160 min.; rose water, 331-3 fl.oz. Mix and filter. Apply freely to the poisoned parts. If much inflamed wet a cloth and keep in contact with the parts affected. 5. —Poison OaJc.—a.—Dr. James J. Le- vick, of Philadelphia, writes to The Medi¬ cal News: “In a case of poisoning of the hands from Rhus toxicodendron—poison oak—recently under my care, which had reached the vesicular stage and was at¬ tended with much swelling and burning, the happiest results promptly followed the free dusting of the powder of aristol ]$