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) suppression urine; pupils dilated. Treat¬ ment : Stomach pump or emetic; mag¬ nesia carbonate; chalk ; gruel. Croton Oil. — Symptoms : Abdominal pain, purging, vomiting; cold skin, col¬ lapse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; camphor, stimulants, morphia; gruel; linseed poultice. Curarine. — Symptoms: Paralysis of motors and respiration. Treatment: Ar¬ tificial respiration ; stimulants ; ligature and wash wound. Cyanides. See Hydrocyanic Acid. Daturine. See Atropine. Digitalis (Foxglove).—Symptoms: Ab¬ dominal pain, purging, vomiting; head¬ ache, small pulse, delirium, convulsions ; cold skin, sweat; pupils dilated. Treat¬ ment : Stomach pump or emetic; stimu¬ lants ; tannic acid; keep patient lying. Ergot.—Symptoms : Tingling, cramps, vomiting, diarrhea. Treatment:. Stom¬ ach pump or emetic; tannic, gallic acid; nitrate amyl; stimulants: keep warm, lying down. Ether.—Symptoms : Anesthetic action. Treatment: Artificial respiration ; fresh air; douche, stimulants; blows on chest if heart stops. Fly. Powders.—Generally treatment for arsenic. Gas. See Coal Gas. Gelsemium. — Symptoms : Giddiness; pain eyes and brows, double sight, weak¬ ness, suffocation, coma. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic ; douche ; stimu¬ lants ; artificial respiration. Hydrochloric Acid, Muriatic acid ; spir¬ its ; salts.—Symptoms : Burning pain, vomiting, thirst. Treatment: Not stom¬ ach pump (?) ; bicarbonate soda; mag¬ nesia, lime water, soap water, demulcent drinks; morphia, hypodermic. Hydrocyanic Acid, Prussic acid.—• Symptoms : Insensibility ; pupil dilated, skin cold, sweating, difficult breathing. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; ammonia inhaled; stimulants; atropia, hypodermic; artificial respiration; bat¬ tery. Hyoscy amine. See Belladonna. Iodine.—Symptoms : Stomach, throat pain, vomiting, purging, giddiness, faint¬ ness (starch test). Treatment: Stom¬ ach pump or emetic; starch; nitrite amyl; morphia. Labor andi.—Same treatment as pilo¬ carpine ; stomach pump or emetic. Laburnum.—Symptoms : Purging, vom¬ iting, drowsiness, convulsions. Treat¬ ment : Douche ; stimulants ; coffee. Lead. — Symptoms: Metallic taste, thirst, colic, cramps, cold sweat, paraly¬ (Poisons) sis. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; sulphates; iodide potassium; morphia. Lemons, Salt of. See Oxalic Acid. Lobelia.—Symptoms : Vomiting, giddi¬ ness, tremors, convulsions, depression, col¬ lapse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic, tannic acid ; warmth ; stimulants ; keep lying down. Morphia. See Opium. Muscarine, Fly fungus, mushrooms.— Symptoms : Colic, purging, vomiting, ex¬ citement, coma. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; stimulants, castor oil, warmth; atropia, hypodermic. Hicotine. See Tobacco. nitrate of Potassium, Saltpeter.— Symptoms: Nausea, purging, vomiting, coldness, tremors, convulsions, paralysis, collapse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; demulcent drinks, stimulants, warmth, nitrite amyl; atropia, hypoder¬ mic. . nitric Acid. — Symptoms : Corrosion, vomiting, abdominal pain; difficult breathing. Treatment: Not stomach pump; magnesia, lime water, gruel, oil; morphia, hypodermic; tracheotomy. n itro-benzol, Artificial Essence Al¬ monds. — Symptoms : Nausea, difficult breathing, drowsiness, stupidity; coma. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; stimulants; douche; artificial respira¬ tion ; battery; atropia, hypodermic. nitrous Oxide.—Symptoms: Anesthe¬ sia. Treatment: Fresh air, oxygen ; arti¬ ficial respiration. Opium. 1.—This substance, or the numerous preparations such as morphine, etc., is one. of the most frequent causes of poi¬ soning. A common mistake is that of confounding laudanum and paregoric. A teaspoonful of laudanum contains six grains of opium, but a teaspoonful of paregoric contains only one-quarter of a grain. Treatment.—What is in the stomach must be taken out, to prevent further ab¬ sorption, and what is in the blood must be worked out, under proper guidance, by the processes of nature constantly en¬ gaged with such products. The patient must be kept warm by blankets and hot- water bottles, care being taken that the latter do not blister him. An active emetic, like ground mustard, must be given at once, remembering that trouble may be found in getting it to act because of the diminished sensibility to its pres¬ ence from the local stupefying action of the opium upon the mucous membrane of the stomach. The action of the mus- [19]
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