_ BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
h by elixir vitriol, may be freely drank. 
__ Tesrs.—Solution of lime changes vegetable blues to green, and is 
precipitated white by carbonic aeid. Its salts are decomposed by 
the fixed alkalies, which precipitate the lime, but not the ammonia. 
Pure barytes undergoes similar changes to lime when water: is 
_ ~ _ added to it, and acts like it on the vegetable colors. It does not ef- 
-. fervesce with acids. 
“ye Nirre,—(Salt-petre, Nitras Potasse). 
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convulsions, syncope, with feeble pulse, cold extremities, teas- 
of the stomach and bowels ; a species of intoxication, and. 
= ‘TreatMent.—Similar to that of arsenic, only that lime is not 
_ to be used. 
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VEGETABLE POISONS. 
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glove, stramonium, and other plants of the narcotic tribe, by being 
os through mistake, often ae 
Under accidents of this nature ‘we must attempt the immediate 
narcotic has been taken, and before it has excited its peculiar symp- 
toms, that an emetic can be advantageously given. The most pro- 
per emetics would be blood-root, or lobelia, which will throw out the 
poison that may remain in the stomach. Dilute plentifully with 
__ Afterwards, to counteract the effects of the poison, the patient 
should be made to drink copiously, if possible, of vinegar, or other 
strongly acidulated liquors, and particularly the juice of lemons. 
For the purpose of rousing the system from a state of torpor, parti- 
cularly when immoderate quantities of opium have been taken, the — 
patient is to be kept in constant motion on his legs, if capable of 
standing ; but if not, by frequently shaking and moving his ett ee 
We may at the same time assiduously rub the skin with warm 
and other stimulant applications. ~ — 
of Epsom or Glauber’s salts.should be copiously drank to Beoiare a 
vomiting ; and, at the same time, to decompose the poison, which it — 
renders inert, by forming an insoluble sulphate. ‘Till either of the — 
above salts can be obtained, large draughts of water alone, or made — 
_Symptoms.—Pain in the stomach, nausea, painful vomiting, purg- ° 
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Some species of fungi, or mushrooms, hemlock, nightshade, fox- _ 
evacuation of the offending matter; but it is only quickly after the — 
