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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    spiration superficial and laboured. Pupils generally dilated but maybe contracted. May be convulsions. Treatment.—i. Stomach-tube or Emetic of mustard (a table-spoonful of the powder in water), or sulphate of zinc (twenty grains in water), or of ipecacuanha (a scruple of the powder in water). 2. Stimulants, brandy, champagne, chloric ether, sal volatile, etc. 3. Coffee. Hot strong coffee, injected into the rectum if necessary. 4. Warmth to the extremities, hot-water bottles, warm blankets, friction with the warm hand, etc. 5. Recumbent position to be strictly main- tained. VERDIGRIS. This is subacetate of copper. For treatment see Copper. VERMIN KILLER. Usually contain strychnine, arsenic or phos- phorus. Battle's consists of 23 per cent, of
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