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scar. The person will feel very sick and may faint away 

 and become insensible. You should give him milk or raw 

 eggs. Then give Epsom salts, which will tend to stop the 

 action of the poison. Carbolic acid, when used as a strong 

 wash, may injure the skin, and cause sickness as if it had 

 been swallowed. Treat the person as if he had swallowed 

 the poison. 



78. Arsenic. Paris green, London purple, and most 

 other rat and insect poisons are forms of arsenic. When 

 swallowed they produce vomiting and great pains in the 

 stomach. A very little of the poison will cause death. 

 Give the poisoned person milk and raw eggs. 



79. Insect stings. Bees, hornets, spiders, mosquitoes, 

 and other insects sometimes inject a little poison beneath 

 the skin when they bite or sting. This produces a swelling 

 and great pain as though something were burning the skin. 

 If a number of stings are made there may be enough poison 

 to make a person very sick. 



The pain of bites and stings can be relieved by applying 

 a lump of cold mud at once. Some carbolic acid water, 

 lime water, ammonia, or camphor will also help. 



80. Snake bites. In the United States there are but 

 few kinds of snakes that bite, and still fewer whose bites 

 are poisonous. A snake bite is like that of a very large 

 and poisonous insect. The bitten part swells and becomes 

 very painful, and the person feels weak all over. 



You should tie a handkerchief above the bite as soon as 

 possible, so as to keep the poison from going through the 

 whole body. Then suck the bite so as to take out the 

 poison, being careful to spit out the blood and poison. 

 You should cut open the bitten part so as to let the blood 

 flow and wash away the poison. You should also give 

 strong coffee or other stimulant. 



