484 Treatment of Poisoning, 



breathing ; reddish urine, low temperature, faintness, palsy, convulsions, 

 and death. Sometimes a frothy mucus comes from the mouth and nose, 

 the eyes are jaundiced and the skin discolored. The treatment for 

 herbivorous animals is to give full doses of oily purgatives. With 

 these may be joined several spoonfuls of iron rust, which forms with the 

 arsenic a harmless salt. The carbonate of iron is a more active form. 



BrinO. — it is not generally known that a formidable poison is 

 developed in the brine in which flesh and fish are steeped, after standing 

 a few months. About two quarts of such brine will kill a horse, and a 

 pint and a half will destroy a pig or goat. The symptoms are sick 

 stomach, giddiness and apoplexy ; the jaws twitch and the animal 

 foams at the mouth. Death may take place in eight hours. The 

 treatment is by active purges and stimulants. 



Corrosive Sublinridte. — The corrosive chloride of mercury, 

 commonly known as corrosive sublimate, is one of the most active and 

 fatal poisons in veterinary pharmacy. It should always be used with the 

 utmost caution. A quarter of an ounce of it will kill a horse or an ox, 

 and half that amount will destroy a sheep or pig. The symptoms are : 

 violent pain in the belly ; intense thirst ; total loss of appetite ; 

 diarrhea, with offensive and bloody discharges ; cough ; trembling, 

 salivation, stupor and death. The treatment is to pour down the 

 whites of a dozen eggs, stirred up with a little warm water; followed 

 by linseed tea, mucilage of slippery elm bark, and a slop diet for some 

 days. 



CreaSOte. — This medicinal agent is actively corrosive and 

 caustic. In cases of poisoning by it the general treatment advised on 

 page 427 should be resorted to. 



LiG^Cl ■ — Sugar of lead and litharge are both poisonous forms of 

 this mineral. Lead poisoning is also common among horses and cattle 

 in the vicinity of smelting works, where minute particles of lead, car- 

 ried up the flues of the furnaces, are blown by the wind over the 

 pastureSj and taken up by the animals in eating the grass. The refuse 

 of cities, when used as a fertilizer, generally contains pieces of sheet 

 lead and painted articles which contaminate the pasturages, and 

 produce chronic and fatal lead poisoning in the stock. The supply of 

 water may also be charged with soluble salts of lead in passing through 

 conducting pipes of that material, and lead to the same result. 



The symptoms of lead poisoning are loss of appetite, staring coat, 

 arched back, an anxious expression, with sometimes foaming at the 

 mouth, and a protruding tongue. This is followed by staggers, which 



