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Poisons and Antidotes

FIRST. - Send for a physician.
SECOND. - INDUCE VOMITING, by tickling throat with feather or finger. Drink hot water or strong mustard and water. Swallow sweet oil or whites of eggs. 
Acids are antidotes for alkalies, and vice versa. 

ACIDS, MINERAL. - Chalk, magnesia (plaster off wall in emergency), solution carbonate or soda, emollient drinks, fixed oils. 
ACID, CARBOLIC. - Any soluble sulphate, such as magnesia. 
ACID, HYDROCYANIC. - Fresh air and artificial respiration, with cold effusion. Ammonia by inhalation and intravenously in vein of leg. 
ACONITE. - Emetics, stimulants, external and internal keep up external heat, keep flat on back. 
ANTIMONY TART. - Vegetable acids, such as tannic acid, catechu.
ARSENIC. - Freshly precipitated hydrated sesquioxide of iron made by adding magnesia to any iron solution. 
ATROPIA. - Same as Belladonna.
BELLADONNA. - Emetics - mustard flour in water; give physostigma or pilocarpine; cold to head.
CANTHARIDES. - Emetics, emollient drinks, opiates by mouth and rectum, large draughts of water to flush kidneys. 
CHLORINE WATER. - Albumen, white of egg, milk, flour.
CHLOROFORM. - Fresh air, artificial respiration (inclining head down, pull tongue forward), brandy and ammonia intravenously in leg, the HYPODERMIC injection of 15 m. tincture of digitalis and 1-60 of a grain of atropine.
COLCHICUM. - Emetics, followed by demulcent drinks. If coma be present brandy, ammonia, coffee. Opium in large dose. Keep up external heat. 
CONIUM. - Emetics, followed by stimulants external and internal. 
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. - Albumen, white of egg (4 gr. sublimate require white of one egg), flour milk. Equal parts of lime water and milk. Emetics, or evacuate stomach by pump. 
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Poisons and Antidotes

COPPER SULPH. - Yellow prussiate of potash or soap. 
CROTON OIL. - Emetics; wash out stomach, followed by mucilaginous fluids, containing opium. 
DIGITALIS. - Recumbent posture after emetics. Emetics and opium; give tincture aconite. 
ELATERIUM. - Demulcent drinks, enemeta of opium, and external heat. 
HYOSCYAMUS. - Stomach pump, emetics, stimulants external and internal, physostigma and pilocarpine. 
ILLUMINATING GAS. - Hypodermic injections of nitroglycerin are recommended by Kloman, of Baltimore. 
IODINE. - Emetics and demulcent drinks, starch or flour diffused in water, opium and external heat. 
LEAD SALTS. - Any soluble sulphate, either magnesia or soda, succeeded by emetics, and afterwards by opium and milk. 
LOBELLA. - Stimulants externally and internally; external heat. 
MORPHINE. - Same as opium.
NUX VOMICA. - 30 grs. of chloral and 60 grs. of bromide of potash. Nitrite of amyl.
OPIUM. - Atropine hypodermically till respirations number 8 per minute. Stomach pump, stimulants, external and internal, brandy and coffee, cold affusion, ammonia to nostrils, galvanic shocks, compelling to move about, artificial respiration, electric brush. Permanganate of Potash.
OXALIC ACID. - Lime, not potash or soda. 
PHOSPHORUS. - Sulphate of copper in emetic dose as chemical antidote. No oils. Emetics and purgatives. 
POTASH AND SODA SALTS. - Dilute acetic acid, citric acid, lemon juice, fixed oils, demulcents, vinegar. 
SILVER NITRATE. - Solution of common salt and demulcent drinks. Emetics. 
STRAMONIUM. - Same as Belladonna.
STRYCHNINE. - Same as Nux Vomica.
TOBACCO. - Emetic, stimulants, external and internal, strychnine, external heat.
ZINC SALTS. - Carbonate of soda, emetics, warm demulcent drinks.
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