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urine scanty, red, and bloody, delirium, convulsions of an 
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TreatMENT.—Vomiting is to be immediately excited ; blood- 
root tincture is perhaps as quick and safe as any vomit, this must be 
followed up by large and long continued draughts of camomile, lin- — 
seed tea, or other emollient fluids. If arsenic has been taken in 
solution, lime-water, chalk and water, or pearlash water, may be 
drank freely. Inflammatory symptoms are to be combatted as in 
other cases of inflammation in the stomach; with fomentations, fre-- 
quent emollient clysters, as symptoms may require. an 
For arsenic no specific antidote is yet known. Vinegar, charcoal _ 
powder, and emollient and mucilaginous vegetable decoctions, as of 
barley with gum arabic, mutton and veal broths, linseed tea, milk; 
and such like, will tend to absorb the poison, sheath the parts, and. 
prevent their being acted upon by the particles of the poisonous mat-~ 
ter. With the same intentions, either of the above preparations may 
he thrown up in the formof a clyster, 
fluid a broad streak on 
writing paper, then draw a piece of lunar caustic several times over 
the moistened part, which will become yellow if arsenic or e 
phosphate be present. If it be arsenic, the streak will be = 
curdy and flocculent ; if a phosphate, smoothand uniform. In afew — 
minutes phosphoric yellow fades into a dull green, becomes darker 
and ultimately black. ‘he arsenical yellow remains permanent, or 
nearly so for some time, when it becomes brown. ‘These distine- 
tions are to be made by reflected, not transmitted light, the test be- 
ing made in the shade. | = ee 
Another simple and efficacious neans of detecting arsenicis, by 
fusing a portion of the suspected matter in a solution of vegetab 
alkali, or potash ; after standing an hour or two, pour upon it a solu- 
tion of sulphate of copper. If any arsenic is present, the copper 
ediately converted into a beautiful green, and will soon 
be precipitated. In this way, water, or the contents of the stomach, 
supposed to contain arsenic, may be examined. 
If a few grains of matter, supposed to contain arsenic, be thrown _ 
on a hot iron, a smell like garlic will be perceived. Ifa. grain. 
of the same be placed between two plates of copper, (ast yo cents) 
“and subjected to a red heat, the copper becomes whitened. 
SURY, AND ITS PREPARATIONS: Corrosive Sublimate, Red 
_ Precipitate, Vermilion, Calomel, §&c. . 
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