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) tard should be assisted by tickling the inside of the throat with the finger or a feather. 2.—Symptoms : Intoxication ; sleep ; pupils contract; respiration and pulse slow, depressed. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic ; rouse ; inhale ammonia ; douche; battery; atropia, hypodermic; nitric amyl; artificial respiration. Oxalic Acid. — Symptoms : Vomiting, purging, cramps. Treatment: Chalk, sacch. lime; purgatives ; no potash, soda or ammonia. Phosphorus (matches). — Symptoms : Odor ; vomiting ; purple spots ; delirium. Treatment: Emetic; French oil of tur¬ pentine ; copper sulphate; purgative. Physostigmine, Calabar bean.—Symp¬ toms : Faintness, prostration, twitching, giddiness; no delirium. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic, stimulants ; ar¬ tificial respiration ; atropia, hypodermic ; chloral; strychnia, hypodermic. Picrotoxine. — Symptoms : Vomiting, weakness, sleep, eruption. Treatment: Stomach pump, chloral, potassium bro¬ mide. Pilocarpine. — Symptoms: Sweating, salivation, headache, quick pulse. Treat¬ ment : Atropia, hypodermic, or bella¬ donna by mouth. Potash. — Symptoms : Caustic taste, corrosion, painful purging, skin cold. Treatment: Not stomach pump ; vinegar, lemon juice, oil, demulcent drink. Prussic Acid. See Hydrocyanic Acid. —Stomach pump or emetic. Resorcin. — Symptoms : Prickling of the skin, giddiness, sweating, insensibil¬ ity, white lips, dry tongue. Treatment: Albumen, soda, sacch. lime ; stimulants; warmth, battery, nitrate amyl; atropia, hypodermic. Savin.—Symptoms : Vomiting, painful purging, coma, convulsions. Treatment: Emetic, linseed poultice, purgative; mor¬ phia, hypodermic. Soda. < See Potash. Soothing Sirup. See Opium. Stramonium, Thorn apple. — Symp¬ toms : Pupils dilated, delirium, rash on skin, paralysis, coma. Treatment: Stom¬ ach pump or emetic; coffee, stimulants; pilocarp., hypodermic; artificial respira¬ tion ; mustard douche to limbs. Strychnine.—Symptoms : Convulsions. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; potassium bromide ; anemi; charchi; ni¬ trite amyl; curare ; artificial respiration. Tartaric Acid. See Acids.—Symptoms: Convulsions. Treatment: Alkalies (pot¬ ash and soda) and ammonia, not suitable. Use lime, castor oil. [ (Ring, To Remove) Tobacco.—Symptoms : Vomiting, dim vision, weak pulse and cold skin. Treat¬ ment : Stomach pump or emetic; stimu¬ lant, strychnia, hypodermic ; tannic acid ; hot application to skin; keep patient lying down. Turpentine.—Symptoms : Intoxication, coma, collapse, pupils contracted. Treat¬ ment : Stomach pump or emetic; apomor- phia if necessary ; magnesia, sulphur; de¬ mulcent drink. Veratrine.—Symptoms : Thirst, vomit¬ ing, painful diarrhea, headache, weak pulse. Treatment: Stomach pump or emetic; coffee, stimulants ; warm applica¬ tion ; keep patient lying down. Zinc.—Symptoms : Painful vomiting, quick pulse and breathing, paralysis, coma. Treatment: Potassium or sodium carbonate; tannic or gallic acid; milk, eggs; morphia, hypodermic. Ring, How to Remove. When a ring is fixed on the finger from the swelling ’of the skin or joint, rub the finger with soap and cold water, and it will then generally admit of its removal. If this fails, take a strong thread or piece of fine twine, and, beginning at the end of the finger, wind it regularly around and around it, with the coils close to¬ gether, till the ring is reached ; then slip the end through the ring from the side next the end of the finger, and begin to unwind the string, which, as it progresses, carries the ring with it. Sometimes, how¬ ever, when the finger is very much swollen, and when the ring is deeply em¬ bedded, even this plan will not succeed, and the only resource is to cut through the ring with a pair of cutting pliers, first slipping under it a thin piece of metal or cardboard to protect the skin from injury. Sewer Gas. Symptoms: Livid lips, conjunctive in¬ jected, pupils dilated, insensible, tonic convulsions, high temperature. Treat¬ ment : Fresh air, artificial respiration, ammonia. Coffee. Hot and cold douche. Shock. Mild forms of shock, or collapse, as they are sometimes called, are often, by the non-professional, confounded with fainting (syncope), and an ordinary at¬ tack of fainting is analogous to shock. The symptoms of the two vary rather in degree and duration than in kind. In certain extreme cases where there is sud¬ den and powerful emotion, or a blow in ]
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