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every ten minutes. These agents, however, should not be 

 resorted to till the poison has been evacuated from the stomach. 

 Artificial respiration. — As a last resource, this is on no account 

 to be omitted. Death has on several occasions been apparently 

 averted by it. An interesting case, in which it was successfully 

 practised, was published many years ago by Mr. Whately 

 {Med. Obs. and Inq., vol. vi. p. 351). Natural respiration was 

 extinct when it was begun. In another successful case, related 

 by Mr. Smith {Med. Chir. Trans., vol. xx. p. 86), artificial 

 respiration was kept up for four hours and a half (with an in- 

 terval of an hour) ; when it was commenced there was no pulse 

 at the wrist, and only a slight irregular action of the heart, 

 indicative that life was not quite extinct. A third case, also 

 successful, is that of an infant ten days old, who had taken 

 twenty-five to thirty drops of Laudanum, intended for the 

 mother, and had lost the power of deglutition, was comatose, 

 and had several convulsions. Artificial respiration was sus- 

 tained for two or three hours. 



Antidotes of Small (Homoeopathic) Doses. — Bell. Camph. 

 Coff. Htjos. Ipec. Merc. Nnx V. Plumb. Stram. vinum. 

 Opium antidotes Lack. Merc. Nux V. Plumb. Stram. 



