Volume 1

The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others].

Date:
1908-1909
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Credit: The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cocaine-Poisoning Cod-Liver OH THE STANDARD PHVSICLVX buildings under construction), or by too early closing of the damper, or by the stopping up of stovepipes. Carbonic oxide is contained also in illuminating- gas, especially in water-gas, which may escape into the living-rooms through leaks in the gas-]dpes or through open gas-jets. It is found also in mines. Carbonic oxide acts on the Inemoglobin of the blood in such a manner as to ])revent the interchange of oxygen usually taking ])lace in the 1 lood. The important symptoms are headache, dizziness, tremors of the muscles, sounds in the ears, extreme weakness, and unconsciousness. The face is red to bluish. There may be convulsions and asphyxia ^always in the severe Fig. 102. Clubfoot. cases), and death takes place, with small, slow pulse, from heart-paralysis and asphyxiation. Treatment consists in prompt removal of the patient into a ])ure atmos])here and in artificial respiration. It is imperative that the latter be started early and be ])erseveringly and unremittingly continued, even for hours. During the artificial respiration, heat, oxygen, infusion of hot salt water (i per cent.) into the rectum, and hot coffee may be administered. COCAINE-POISONING.—A morbid condition produced either by an overdose of cocaine, or by the continued use of the drug. The acute form of this disease is probably always caused by excessive medicinal doses of the remedy. The poisoned individual at first creates the impression of being under the influence of alcohol ; this is followed by marked collapse, sometimes by convulsions. If the patients do not succumb within the first hour, they usually recover.