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scntial ingredient, are poisonous. Corrosive sublimate used in alcoliol as a 

 hcdbug poison should never bo kept in families, a.s it hm been the cause of 

 very many aucidents. 



Phosphorus, an ingredient in friction matches, is a deadly poison. Too 

 much caution can not be used to keep them away from small children, who 

 Mill put anything in their mouths. The free u.se of warm water will iiut 

 only favor the vomiting which may ensue from the action of the poison it- 

 self, but as a diluent it may serve to weaken its jjower and render it com- 

 paratively harmless. Common table-mustard is a very ])romj)t emetic. The 

 dose is a teaspoonful of dry mustard ; stir this in a tumbler of water and 

 drink at one draught. It is quick, sure, and as agreeable as any emetic. If 

 sonic does remain in the stomach, it does no harm. In a few cases some an- 

 tidote may neutralize the poisonous substance in the stomach, but the main 

 dependence must be in removing immediately its contents citiier by an 

 emetic or, better, by the stonuich-pump. Vegetable acids, as vinegar, are gooil 

 antidotes to many of the vegetable poisons, yet no rules can be given upon 

 which it would be safe to rely without medical assistance. 



4L13. Dec SJiii?rs aud Mosquito Biles. — We have often cured the poison of 

 bee stings, and relieved the pain almost instantly by an application of spirits 

 of hartshorn (liquid ammonia). If that is not convenient, wet the skin and 

 a])ply powdered salcratus or sal soda, which eifects njjon some persons in- 

 siant relief. The same things may be apjilied with success to mosipiito bites 

 upon children or others, where they are particularly jjoisonous. Some- 

 body has published a statement that, if a piece of raw beef is placed in 

 a room infested with mosquitoes, they will all suck the beef and Jet folka 

 alone. 



■i'Ji. Snake Bites and Remedies.— The most virulent and fatal of all poisons, 

 excepting always the poison of bad ventilation, comes from snuko bite*, 

 ■which occur occasionally in some of the new settlements of our country. 

 "We have known death to supervene in several cases for want of a little 

 knowledge of remedies ready at hand. Quo remedy is to drink whisky, or 

 any spirit, as soon as ])0ssible, snflieieiit to jiroduce insensibility. Another 

 remedy is to kill a chicken, or any other animal, and cut it open and apply 

 the warm flesh to the wound, Iiolding fast, and renewing it when it loses tho 

 animal heat. Another is a iKiultice of eipial ])arts of raw onions, tobacco, 

 and salt, mashed together, moistened with whisky, and bound on tight ami 

 frequently renewed. Sweet or olivo oil, wo know as a very vuluablo 

 remedy, taken in half-gill doses, and cloths bound upon the bitten b|»ot 

 soaked in oil. Wo earnestly recommend a trial of the following renietly : 

 Wet a bunch of lint with a teaspoonful of chloroform, and lay it on the 

 bite, and cover it with a watch crystal, a wine-glass, or a tumbler, prosstHl 

 down so as to exclude the air, and hold it there tiftwn to thirty ininulo*, 

 which will probably raiso a blister, and prove so painfnl that tho pain of iho 

 poison will not bo felt. 



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