POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. 563 



Cantharides is a narcotic, irritant poison, causing gastro-enteritis, great 

 irritation and inflammation of urino-genital organs, imperceptil)le pulse, 

 and injected mucous membranes. Give a jiint of linseed oil, which fol- 

 low, after an hour, with large quantities of flaxseed tea or mucilage ; 

 apply hot cloths to the loins ; give starch gruel and laudanum injections ; 

 and oi)ium, in drachm doses, three or four times a day. 



(Jhlovoform is a narcotic poison. It causes a slow jjulse ; slow, heavy 

 breathing ; insensibility to pain ; muscular twitcliings ; dilatation of the 

 [)upils ; foaming at the mouth ; and stupor. Throw cold water over the 

 animal ; raise and lower the fore legs continuously ; pound the chest to 

 induce respiration ; use bellows in the nostrils ; and give sweet spirits of 

 nitre, in ounce doses, at intervals of half an hour, till two or three doses 

 have been given. 



(Jhloval Hydrate is similar, ))()th as to its effects and antidotes, to 

 chloroform 



Croton Oil is an acrid, irritant jjoisoii. It may be either swallowed or 

 absorbed from the skin, and causes gastro-enteritis, drastic pur<ration, 

 and great prostration. The treatment is that for superpurgation. 



DRASTIC POISONING. 



Characteristic appearance and action of a horse suffering irom this cause- 



Copper Sulphate is a corrosive, irritant poison, bringing on gastro- 

 enteritis and diarrhoea; ulceration, perforation and thickening of the mu-= 

 cous membranes ; quick, hard, almost imperceptible pulse ; and, near 

 smelting works, emaciation, paralysis and exostotic disease of the joints. 

 These latter symptoms characteiigg tliQ chronic, slow poisoning resulting 



