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
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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) Barium, Baryta.—Symptoms : Vomit¬ ing, pain in bowels, purging; pulse an3 breathing distorted; cramps, paralysis, giddiness. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic ; sulphates ; warmth. Stimu¬ lants : Morphia, hypodermic. Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade.—* Symptoms: Mouth, throat hot; eyes sparkling, face flushed, pupils dilated; delirium, staggering; rash (?). Treat¬ ment : Stomach pump or emetic. Stimu¬ lants : Coffee; pilocarp., hypodermic; ar¬ tificial respiration. Benzol, Benzine. — Symptoms: Nar¬ cotic ; twitching, difficult breathing, head noises. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic. Stimulants: Atropia, hypo¬ dermic ; douches, battery, artificial respi¬ ration. Brucine. See Strychnine. Calabar Bean. See Physostigmine. Camphor.—Symptoms : Odor ; faint¬ ness, languor, delirium, convulsions, cold¬ ness ; pulse quick, breathing difficult. Treatment: Stomach pump or apomor- phia, hypodermic. Stimulants : Warmth ; douche. Cantharides, Spanish Fly. — Symp¬ toms : Burning pain, throat and stom¬ ach ; diarrhea, salivation, albuminous urine; high temperature, headache, quick pulse; insensibility, convulsions. .Treat¬ ment: Stomach pump (?) or emetic; demulcent drinks, no oil; morphia; baths; linseed poultice. Carbolic Acid.—Symptoms : Burning pain in mouth and stomach; mucous membrane, white, hardened; skin, cold; pupils, contracted; urine, dark; insensi¬ bility ; coma; collapse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; soda or sacch. lime; white of egg; castor oil; stimu¬ lants ; warmth; battery; atropia, hypo¬ dermic ; nitric amyl; bleeding. Carbonic Acid. See Main Alphabet in this chapter. Caustic Potash or Soda. See Potash. Chloral.—Symptoms : Sleep ; loss, of muscular power; reflex action ; sensibil¬ ity diminished; stertorous breathing. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; warmth; rousing; coffee; strychnine, hypodermic; nitric amyl; artificial respi¬ ration. Chlorine.—Symptoms : Tightness ; irri¬ tation, chest; cough ; difficult breathing, swallowing. Treatment: Fresh air ; in¬ hale steam ; dilute ammonia ; sulphur ; hydrogen ; chloroform ; ether. Chloroform.—If swallowed : Stomach pump or emetic; carbonate soda solution ; rousing; mustard to the heart; nitric amyl. If inhaled: Fresh air; douche; (Poisons) artificial respiration; nitrite amyl; bat¬ tery. Choice Damp. See Carbonic Acid. Coal Gas.—Symptoms : Giddiness ; in¬ sensibility ; difficult breathing ; asphyxia ; coma. Treatment: Mustard to the heart. Also as for carbonic acid. Cocaine. 1. —Cocaine is the active principle of Erythroxylon Coca, and is a prompt poi¬ son in overdose. It is largely used by surgeons as a local anesthetic in small operations, especially on the eye and nose. It has the power of reducing tem¬ porarily the congestion and swelling of inflamed mucous membranes. For that reason it is often introduced into pow¬ ders and liquids which are to be sniffed up the nose for cold in the head or hay fever. These must be used with great care or else the cocaine habit will be formed, which is quite as serious as the opium habit. Acute poisoning may oc¬ cur, though rarely, when used in this way. In doses of four or five grains, taken internally, it has caused poisonous symp¬ toms. These resemble closely those of opium poisoning, but the pupil of the eye is dilated instead of contracted and the respirations are not so diminished. The treatment is essentially the same as for opium poisoning, though the need for ar¬ tificial respiration is not so great. 2. —Equal parts of amyl nitrite and alcohol. M. et sig.: Inhale the vapors thus produced. Cocculus Indicus. See Picrotoxine. Colchicum, Meadow Saffron.—Symp¬ toms : Vomiting ; purging ; throat irrita¬ tion ; thirst; sweat; twitchings; de¬ lirium. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; tannic, gallic acid; demulcent drink ; stimulants ; morphia. Colocyntli. — Symptoms : Vomiting ; purging; cold; weak pulse; collapse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; camphor, and similar to colchicum. Conine, Hemlock.—Symptoms : Stag¬ gering ; loss of muscular power; sight; difficult breathing, swallowing ; asphyxia. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; tannic, gallic acid; warmth; artificial respiration; stimulants; atropia, hypo¬ dermic. Copper.—Symptoms : Colic, griping; metallic taste; vomiting, purging; thirst, sweating, coldness, giddiness, coma. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; demulcent drink; morphia, hypodermic; linseed poultice. Chromium, Chromates. — Symptoms : Vomiting ; purging ; cramps ; depression ; [18]
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