A practical treatise on poisons and asphyxies, adapted to general use : followed by directions for the treatment of burns and for the distinction of real from apparent death / By M.P.[!] Orfila ... Tr. from the Fench, with notes and additions, by J.G. Stevenson, M.D., with an appendix.
- Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853. Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées. English
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on poisons and asphyxies, adapted to general use : followed by directions for the treatment of burns and for the distinction of real from apparent death / By M.P.[!] Orfila ... Tr. from the Fench, with notes and additions, by J.G. Stevenson, M.D., with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![15 Connterpoisons, or antidotes. This name is giv- en to substances capable of decomposing the liquid or solid poisons, or of combining with them at a temperature equal or inferior to that of the hu- man body, and of forming a new product which does not exert any hurtful action on the animal system. These substances should be capable of being taken in large doses without danger ; their action ought to be prompt, and independent of the presence of the gastric juice and the mucous and bilious fluids which the stomach may con- tain. The principal antidotes are, albumen [the white of egg], milk, light infusion of gallnuts, decoction of cinchona [Peruvian bark], very weak solutions of the sulphate of soda [Glauber's salt], or of magnesia, [Epsom salt], and of the hydrochlorate of soda [common salt], magnesia, and solution of soap in water. Second stage. If the physician is called to the poisoned man a long time after the introduc- tion of the poison into the alimentary canal, from which it is now entirely expelled by vomiting or purging, instead of making use of antidotes or of emetics, which in many cases might be injuri- ous, he should examine the state of the individ- ual with great attention, the nature of the sjmp- toms which he exhibits, the organs which are af- fected primarily or secondarily, and the kind of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21009272_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
