‘BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
without gneve: is routh ten within. When children can- 
not go abroad, they may be exercised at home. ~The best method 
doing this is to make them run about im a large room, or dance. 
This last kind of exercise, if not carried to excess, is of excellent 
service to people. It cheers the spirits, promotes perspiration, and 
st ens the limbs, &&c. I knew an eminent physician who used 
) say, that he made his children dance instead of giving A 
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‘sic. = were well if more peas followed his example. if 
POISON S. 
person ought, in some measure, to be wii the 
- and treatment of poisons. They are not meta 
and their effects are often so sudden and violent as a6 
Seley, or allow time to aN the assistance of medical 
| There are four kinds of poisons ; yiz: ‘mineral, vegetable, erial, 2 
. and animal. 
Mineral poisons are distinguished fii vegetable ones by their 
action. The former corrode, stimulate, and inflame ; the latter gene- 
rally stupify, without leaving any marks of inflammation. 
None of the mineral poisons prove fatal, till after a most excru- 
-Ciating operation of at least two or three hours ; whereas some of | 
toe vegetable ones terminate life in afew ‘Minutes, ‘From the animal 
distinction i is as remarkable. .The zrial po 
hs ‘than any other classes, andthe 
so peculiar — immedi 2 ee 
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eldom remains jong: th the Moaiach before it occasi 
‘aokucer with an inclination t to vomit. This shows plainly. what 
ought to be done. Indeed, common sense dictates to every ont 
that if any thing has been taken into the stomach which endangers 
life, it ought immediately to be discharged. Were this duly re- 
preted, the danger arising from ae might often be erry 
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"MINERAL, POISON s. 
ss tax chief of the mineral poisons are, arstnic, and its: 
- corrosive sublimate, lead, copper, antimony, Fe 
‘Symtoms. —When a metallic poison has Shien ee the 
sym } are an austere taste, fotid breath, constricti of the 
ne! and gullet; hiccup,” nausea, and vomiting of brown or b 
matter, anxiety, and faintings, heat with violent pain at the 
stomach; black and offensive stools, small pulse, frequent ee 
. gular palpitations, great thirst and burning heat, breathing 
