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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    TURPENTINE—OIL OF TURPENTINE- SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE—TURPS. How taken.—Sometimes given to children for criminal purposes. Taken to expel worms. Given in mistake for other medicines. Symptoms.—Odour in breath. Intoxication. Contracted pupils, stertorous breathing, coma, collapse, and tetanic convulsions. Irritability of bladder, the urine having the odour of vio- lets. Some resemblance to poisoning by opium. Fatal dose.— Child under two years of age recovered after taking a table-spoonful. Treatment.— I. Stomach-pump or Emetic of sulphate of zinc (twenty grains in water), or of ipecacuanha (a scruple of the powder in water). Should these fail, a hypodermic injec- tion of gr. ^ of apomorphine (lo minims of the I in 50 solution or one of the tabloids) may be given. 2. Sulphate of magnesium, an ounce in water as a purgative. 3. Demulcent drinks, such as milk, white of egg and water, barley water, etc. 4. Morphine. If much pain, a hypodermic injection of half a grain of morphine, or thirty drops of laudanum by mouth.
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