What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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Credit: What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Coffee. An enema of a pint of hot strong coffee. 4. Mustard to the calves of the legs, hot- water bottles to the feet, rousing by flicking with a wet towel, alternate hot and cold douche, interrupted current to the limbs, etc. 5. Pilocarpine. A hypodermic injection of half a grain of pilocarpine (10 minims of the i in 20 solution), to be repeated in half an hour if necessary, or two drachms of tincture of jaborandi by mouth or rectum. 6. Artificial respiration to be maintained for two hours if necessary. Catheter should be used if retention. STRYCHNINA—STRYCHNINE. An alkaloid found both in Nux Vomica seeds (Strychnos nux vomica) and St. Ignatius’ Bean (Strychnos ignatia), also in some of the other Strychnacese. How taken.—Cases of poisoning of very fre- quent occurrence. Many deaths from vermin killers, which are usually made of meal or flour with strychnine and perhaps arsenic. The names of Butler, Battle and Gibson are not p 2
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