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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![(Poisons) on the affected parts. The change was almost magical, so sudden and so prompt was the relief afforded. b.—Saturated solution of lead acetate in 50 or 75 per cent, alcohol. The milky fluid should be well rubbed into the af¬ fected part, and the operation should be repeated several times during the course of a few days. The itching is at once relieved and the further progress of the malady arrested. The remedy had been tried in a large number of cases and had always proved successful. It must be remembered, however, that it is a violent poison when taken internally, and hence care in its use must be exercised. No doubt an ointment of lead acetate, pre¬ pared with lanolin or other bland oint¬ ment base, would be equally effective. POISONS AND ANTIDOTES General Principles. The following notes on treatment in cases of poisoning, by Edmund White, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., are reprinted, by permission, from the “Pharmacopoeia of St. Thomas’s Hospital” : 1. Remove by lavage or emesis any poison which remains in the stomach, or chemically neutralize it. For lavage, use a soft stomach-tube and warm water containing the appropriate chemical antidote, if such be available, in solution or suspension. For emetics, see list below. (Caution! avoid lavage and emesis in poisoning by corrosive substances.) 2. Administer the physiological anti¬ dote, if one be known. See list below. 3. Hasten elimination of the poison.— Intravenous infusion of normal saline so¬ lution in poisoning with alkaloids. Aper¬ ients. (Caution! Avoid castor oil in phos¬ phorous poisoning.) 4. Treat other symptoms as they arise: Collapse.—Hot bottles. Caution ! Be¬ ware of burning an unconscious patient. Hot blankets. Strong coffee by mouth or rectum. Elevate foot of bed. Syncope.—Recumbency. Subcutaneous injections of ether or strychnine. Arom. sp. of ammonia in water, by the mouth. Faradism. Mustard papers to precordial region. Respiratory Failure.—Artificial respi¬ ration. Cold affusion. Tracheotomy, if there is laryngeal obstruction. Oxygen in¬ halation. Pain, if severe.—Morphine hypodermic¬ ally. 5. When poison has been eliminated, (Antidotes) as far as possible, give demulcents (see following list). List of Antidotes. The following articles are the most use¬ ful antidotes in cases of poisoning. The quantities given are for adults and for a single dose, which must be repeated, with¬ in the limits of safe dosage, according to the severity of the symptoms and the quantity of poison ingested. Emetics. 1. Apomorphine Hydrochloride, 1-10 gr. for hypod. inj. 2. Powd. Ipecac. (not Pulv. Ipecac. Co., 30 gr. in water. 3. Liq. Ext. of Ipecac., 20 m. in water. 4. Mustard, one tablespoonful in 8 oz. , water. 5. Common Salt, one tablespoonful in warm water. 6. Zinc Sulphate, 30 gr. in 8 oz. warm water. If there is delay in obtaining emetics tickling the fauces may be resorted to. Demulcents. 7. Milk. 8. Olive Oil. 9. Thick Gruel (fine oatmeal, 1 oz., mixed and boiled with 10 oz. of water). 10. White of Egg. Stimulants. 11. Brandy, % oz. in 2 oz. water. 12. Strychnine Hydrochloride, 1-60 gr. for hypod. inj. 13. Ether, 30-60 m., for hypod. inj. 14 . Arom. Spt. of Ammonia, 60 m. in water. 15. Smelling bottle, for ammonia in¬ halation. 16. Coffee, 2 oz. to be boiled with % pint water. 17. Mustard Papers, to be moistened with tepid water. Chemical Antidotes. 18. Chalk, Whiting, or Wall Plaster, % oz. stirred up in water. 19. Sodium or Potassium Bicarbonate, 120 gr. in water (only used for acids in absence of magnesia and chalk, on account of the rapid evolution of gas). 20. Magnesia, % oz. stirred up in water. 21. Sacch. Sol. of Lime, 1-2 fl.drm. in water. 22. Citric or Lemon Juice, 1 oz. di¬ luted with water. 24. Magnesium or Sodium Sulphate, % oz. in 8 oz. of water. 25. Hydrated Ferric Oxide, produced when required by adding to % oz. Sol. of Ferric Chloride in 8 oz. of water, oz. [14]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31361523_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
