‘BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
and omiting of various colored fluid, sometimes bloody; ‘diarrhea, 
and difficulty of making water. Pulse quick, small, and hard ; faint- 
ings, great debility, difficult breathing, cramps, cold sweats, insensi- 
bility and death. . 
TMENT.—Whites of eggs Besoin pie corrosive sublimate. 
' mixed with water may be given every two or three minutes 
to shied vomiting, and to lessen the virulence of the poison : 
in large quantities, gum Arabic solution, linseed tea, sugar and 
w ; or water itself, at about 800. Gluten, as it exists in wheat | 
flour, also decomposes sublimate, and should be given mixed with 
_ Water. Inflammation must be counteracted) 
ee Tests.—Mercurial preparations, heated to redness in a glass tube 
potash, are decomposed, the quicksilver being volatilized. The 
is precipitate white by ammonia ; ‘yellow, by potash ; and 
orange color, by lime water. 
ed rand nitric oxides of mercury may be dissolved in muriatic 
converted into sublimate. 
mill on is ‘insoluble in water or muriatic acid; but is entirely 
1 by heat. 
a 3 excess of emetic tartar, or any other eagioagot of an-~ 
_ Umony, have been taken, the particular symptoms are those occa- 
daca be 
acids, with copious and obstinate vomitings, abundant — 
nee constrictions of the throat, cramps, Syinbicms of intoxica- 
of aixength, 7 
after it is taken; but when this does not take 
place, it should be excited by tickling the throat with a feather or 
the finger ; and encouraged “by copious draughts of mild fluids ; or 
when too severe, to be allayed by opium, according to the effects pre- 
viously produced by the poison. 
The best antidotes are, a decoction of astringent vegetables, such 
oak or willow bark, strong green tea, sweet bugle, &c. which 
O Id be gizen freely for the purpose of diluting and deconipaney 
- alpbuiated abe precipitates tartarized antimony 
Solution of an orange or deep brownish ‘ 
- acid, alkalies, or lime water. Infusic all occasions 
a copious whitish yellow precipitate. The muriate of antimony is a 
_ dark te fluid, to igre Se water be added, a white Bevin is 
formed.. 
tallic state hy eionton vith charcoal and 
