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Tomiting and stupor; cold perspiration, 

 ■dilated pupils, sighing, irregular breath- 

 ing, and sometimes convulsions. 



Treatment. — After vomiting, give 

 trandy and ammonia in frequently re- 

 peated doses, apply warmth to the ex- 

 tremities, and if necessary resort to 

 artificial respiration. 



GASES — Carbonic Acid, Chlorine, Cyan- 

 ogen, Hydrosulphuric Acid, etc. 



Symptoms. — Great drowsiness, diffi- 

 cult respiration, features swollen, face 

 blue as in strangulation. 



Treatment. — Artificial respirations, 

 •cold douche, frictions with stimulating 

 substances to the surface of the body. 

 Inhalation of steam containing prepara- 

 tions of ammonia. Cupping from nape 

 ■of neck. Internal use of chloroform. 



GREEN VITRIOL. See Iron. 



HELLEBORE, or Indian Poke. 



Symptoms. — Violent vomiting and 

 purging, bloody stools, great anxiety, 

 tremors, vertigo, fainting, sinking of the 

 pulse, cold sweats, and convulsions. 



Treatment. — Excite speedy vomiting 

 by large draughts of warm water, molasses 

 and water, tickling the throat with the 

 iinger or a feather, and emetics; give 

 •oily and mucilaginous drinks, oily purga- 

 tives, and clysters, acids, strong coffee, 

 •camphor, and opium. 



HEMLOCK (Coninm). 



Symptoms. — Dryness of the throat, 

 tremors, dizziness, difficulty of swallowing, 

 prostration and faintness, limbs power- 

 less or paralyzed, pupils dilated, pulse 

 Tap id and feeble; insensibility and con- 

 vulsions sometimes precede death. 



Treatment. — Empty the stomach and 

 give brandy in tablespoonful doses, with 

 half teaspoonful of spirits of ammonia, 

 frequently repeated, and if much pain 

 and vomiting, give bromide of ammonium 

 in five-grain doses every half hour. Arti- 

 ■ficial respiration may be required. 



HENBANE or HYOSCYAMUS. 



Symptoms. — Muscular twitching, in- 

 ability to articulate plainly, dimness of 

 vision and stupor; later, vomiting and 

 purging, small, intermittent pulse, con- 

 vulsive movement of the extremities, and 

 •coma. 



Treatment. — Similar to Opium Pois- 

 oning, which see. 



IODINE. 



Symptoms. — Burning pain in throat, 



lacerating pain in the stomach, fruitless 

 effort to vomit, excessive tenderness of 

 the epigastrium. 



Treatment. — Free emesis, prompt ad- 

 ministration of starch, wheat flour, or 

 arrowroot, beat up in water. 



LEAD — Acetate of Lead, Sugar of 

 Lead, Dry White Lead, Red Lead, Lith- 

 arge, or Pickles, Wine, or Vinegar, 

 sweetened by Lead. 



Symptoms. — When taken in large 

 doses, a sweet but astringent metallic 

 taste exists, with constriction in the 

 throat, pain in the region of the stomach, 

 painful, obstinate, and frequently bloody 

 vomitings, hiccough, convulsions or 

 spasms, and death. When taken in small 

 but long-continued doses, it produces 

 colic, called painter's colic; great pain, 

 obstinate constipation, and in extreme 

 cases paralytic symptoms, especially wrist- 

 drop, with a blue line along the edge of 

 the gums. 



Treatment. — To counteract the 

 poison, give alum in water, one and a 

 half ounce to a quart; or, better still, 

 Epsom salts or Glauber salts, an ounce 

 of either in a quart of water; or dilute 

 sulphuric acid, a teaspoonful to a quart 

 of water. If a large quantity of sugar of 

 lead has been recently taken, empty the 

 stomach by an emetic of sulphate of 

 zinc (one drachm in a quart of water), 

 giving one-fourth to commence, and re- 

 peating smaller doses until free vomiting 

 is produced; castor oil should be given 

 to clear the bowels, and injections of oil 

 and starch freely administered. If the 

 body is cold, use the warm bath. 



MEADOW SAFFRON.— See Bella- 

 donna. 



LAUDANUM. — See Opium. 



LUNAR CAUSTIC— See Silver. 



LOBELIA, Indian Poke. 



Symptoms. — Excessive vomiting and 

 purging, pains in the bowels, contraction 

 of the pupils, delirium, coma and convul- 

 sions. 



Treatment. — Mustard over the stom- 

 ach, and brandy and ammonia. 



MERCURY. — Corrosive Sublimate (bug 

 poisons frequently contain this poison), 

 Red Precipitate, Chinese or English Ver- 

 million. 



Symptoms. — Acrid, metallic taste in 

 the mouth, immediate constriction and 

 burning in the throat, with anxiety and 



