Correr AND ITS PREPARATIONS. Blue Vitriol, 
cooked in foul Copper Vessels, and Pickles made 
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Symptoms —Acrid and coppery taste ; tongue parched and dry 5 By 
constriction of the throat and coppery eructations; severe vomitings, 
or fruitless efforts to vomit; dragging at the Stomach, dreadful 
colic, frequent, black, bloody stools with tenesmus; abdomen distend- 
~ ed; pulse small, hard, and quick ; fainting, great thirst and anxiety, 
cold sweats, scanty urine, pain in the head, swimming, cramps, ¢ 
vulsions, anddeath == pan Sak 
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Treatment.—Large draughts of milk and water to encourage 
vomiting.— Whites of eggs, stirred up with water, and taken freely. ; 
Sugar may be given advantageously with coffee. Nervous symp- 
toms require anti-spasmodics. aS 
Tests.—The salts of copper are mostly of a bright green or blue _ 
colour, and are easily reduced to their metallic state by means of — 
charcoal at an elevated temperature. Blue vitriol is partly decor 
posed by alkalies and alkaline earths. Potash precipitate 
sulphate of a green color from it. Seer 
_ Ifthe salts of copper be dissolved in coffee, port w 
liquors, which pany ‘decompose them, they may be 
adding a spiritous tincture of guaiacum, which will throw down ¢ 
precipitate varying in shade from a greenish indigo to that of a 
green. _ = ee 
LEAD AND ITS PREPARATIONS; or fluids adulterated with lead. — 
Symproms.— When lead has been taken in large quantity, a su- 
gary astringent metallic taste is felt in the mouth; constriction of 
_the throat; pain in the region of the stomach; obstinate, painful, 
and often bloody vomiting, hiccup, convulsions and death. - 
When taken in small long-continued doses, it produces the 
ter’s colic,” and paralytic symptoms. _ oo 
Ts sATMENT.—The sulphates of soda and magnesia are antidot 
t lead, and barytes. These may be assisted with fat, 
and castor oil, together with frequent emollient clysters, to clear out 
the howels. "> 5 . Ps a ee 
Trsts.—The preparations of lead ae ey reduced 
tallic state by calcination with charcoal. he sugar 
: solved in water is precipitated white, by means of sulpl 
Nirratz or Suzver. (Lunar Caustic. ee 
