Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill.

  • Anthony Fothergill
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ ] tra6t, which it will be their intereft duly to obferve.*. Poifons, __ I Happily few poifons are known to the common people, except arfenic, corrofive fublimate, and opium; Thefe, when taken in an over dofe, , whether by accident or defign, have fuddenly produced very tragical effeds. Remarks on ArJeniCi &cc, 1. To difcover whether the poifon rccendy fwallowed was really this mineral, let a part of it be placed on a^hot iron, when the garlic odour will prefently arife if the fubftance was arfenic. It may be alfo dete6led by its whitening a warm plate of polilhed copperi but ftill more clearly, according to Profeflbr Bergman, by communicating a green colour to a folution of blue vitriol. 2. Arfenic ought to be carefully kept under lock and key, and never vended but with extreme caution. Druggifts and apothecaries have been lately admonilhed by the Humane Society, at • See E% on the Abufe of Spirituous Liquors, &c. 179c, which obtained the Bath Society’s Honorary Premium. C 2 the