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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    taken to bring on the menses. Yew-tree tea sometimes used to procure abortion. Symptoms.—Convulsions, insensibility, coma, dilated pupils, paleness of the countenance, small pulse, cold extremities, nausea and vomiting. Death may be sudden and unex- pected. Fatal Dose.—Not known, but said that a teaspoonful of the leaves has caused the death of an adult. Treatment.—i. Emetic of mustard, sulphate of zinc or ipecacuanha. 2. Stimulants freely, such as brandy, cham- pagne, sal volatile or chloric ether. ZINC. The chloride is the salt which most com- monly gives rise to dangerous symptoms. Used in soldering as a flux. Basis of Burnett’s Disinfecting Fluid which contains about 230 grains to the ounce. Symptoms.—Corrosion of lips and mucous membrane of the mouth. Pain and burning sensation in throat and stomach, incessant vomiting of blood-stained fluid, difficulty of
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