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PLATE IX. 



POISONS AND 



General Causes. 



IMPURITIES 

 WATER. 



IN FOOD OR 



UNDRAINED 

 PASTURE. 



OR MARSHY 



IGNORANT USE OF POI- 

 SONOUS DRUGS. 



General Symptoms. 



THE GENERAL SYMPTOMS 

 OF ACUTE MINERAL POI- 

 SONING ARE EXTREME 

 AND PERSISTENT PAIN, 

 WITH PURGING; HIGHLY 

 INJECTED MEMBRANES, 

 AND COLLAPSE. THOSE 

 OF VEGETABLE POISON- 

 ING ARE PAIN WITH 

 FLATULENCE AND BRAIN 

 SYMPTOMS, ASSOCIATED, 

 IN STRYCHNINE POISON- 

 ING, WITH VIOLENT CON- 

 TRACTIONS OF THE 

 MUSCLES OF THE BODY, 

 SIMULATING TETANUS. 

 THE GENERAL SYMPTOMS 

 OF PARASITIC INFECTION 

 ARE UNTHRIFTINESS, 

 LOSS OF HAIR, IRRITA- 

 TION OF SKIN, AND 

 EMACIATION, UNACCOM- 

 PANIED BY ORGANIC 

 DISEASE. 



General Treatment. 



Specified Diseases. 



SPECIAL TREATMENT MUST 

 BE FOLLOWED; BUT IN 

 CONVALESCENCE USE 

 TONIC POWDERS No. 

 XVII. 



ARSENIC AND OTHER IRRI- 

 TANT POISONS. 



POISONOUS HERBS AND 

 PLANTS. 



LARGE ROUND AND SMALL 

 THREADWORMS. 



TAPEWORMS. 



BOTS. 



SCABIES, ITCH OR MANGE. 



RINGWORM. 



LICE. 



