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Copper. Acetate of copper (verdigris), sulpliate of copper (blue 

 vitriol), food cooked in dirty copper vessels, or pickles made green 

 by copper. 



ANTIDOTE. Milk or white of eggs, with mucilaginous drinks (flax 

 seed tea, etc.), should be freely given. 



Iron.Sulpliate of iron (copperas), etc. 



AJNTIDOTE. Carbonate of soda in some, mucilaginous drink, or in 

 water, is an excellent antidote. 



Lead. Acetate of lesid (sugar of lead;, carbonate of lead (white 

 lead), water kept in Deaden pipes or vessels, food cooked in vessels 

 glazed with lead. 



ANTIDOTE. Induce vomiting with ground mustard or common 

 salt in warm water. The antidote for soluble preparations of lead is 

 Epsom salts; for the insoluble forms, sulphuric acid largely diluted. 



Mercury. Bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate), ammoniated 

 mercury (white precipitate), red oxide of mercury (red precipitate), red 

 sulphuret of mercury (vermilion). 



ANTIDOTE. The white of eggs, or wheat flour beaten up with 

 water and milk, are the best antidotes. 



Silver. ^ Nitrate of silver (lunar caustic). 



ANTIDOTE. Give a teaspoonful of common salt in a tumbler of 

 water. It decomposes the salts of silver and destroys their activity. 



Zinc. Sulphate of zinc, etc. (white vitriol). 



ANTIDOTE. The vomiting may be relieved by copious draughts 

 of warm water. The antidote is carbonate of soda administered in 

 water. 



Narcotic Poisons. Opium (laudanum, paregoric, salts of mor- 

 phia, Godfrey's cordial, Dalby's carminative, soothing syrup, cholera 

 mixtures), aconite, belladonna, hemlock, stramonium, digitalis, tobacco, 

 hyosciamus, nux wmica, strychnine. 



ANTIDOTE. Evacuate the stomach by the most active emetics, as 

 mustard, alum, or sulphate of zinc. The patient should be kept in 

 motion, and cold water dashed on the head and shoulders. Strong 

 coffee must be given. The physician will use the stomach pump and 

 electricity. In poisoning by nux vomica or strychnine, etc., chloro- 

 form or ether should be inhaled to quiet the spasms. 



Irritant Vegetable Poisons. Croton oil, oil of samne, poke, oil of 

 tansy, etc. 



ANTIDOTE If vomiting has taken place, it may be rendered easier 

 by copious draughts of warm water. But if symptoms of insensibility 

 have come on without vomiting, it ought to be immediately excited b> 

 ground mustard mixed with warm water, or some other active emo! ; r 



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