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SYNOPTICAL TABLE OP 



POISONS. 



SYMPTOMS. 



TREATMENT. 



MINERAL POISONS. 



These act by destroying the parts with which they come in contact, 

 or so injuring them, that the more remote organs are fatally 

 affected. 



(A.) METALLIC POISONS. 



A strong, metallic taste in An active emetic, the vom 

 the mouth, with a sense of iting to be encouraged by co- 

 bnrning heat in the throat, pious draughts of sugar and 

 nausea, and violent retchings, water, milk, and other dernul- 

 excessive burning and pain in 

 the stomach and bowels, with 

 cholera, and often a discharge 

 of blood; sometimes a swel- 



ARSENIC. ^ D S tension and acute pain 



over the whole abdomen, great 

 anxiety and distress in the 

 countenance, excessive thirst, 

 and a hot dry skin ; a small 

 quick, and irregular pulse; 

 coldness of the extremities, 

 cold sweats,fainting fits, con- 

 vulsions, and death. 



cent drinks as in cantharides. 

 Lime water and chalk and wa- 

 ter may also be drank freely, 

 the bowels to be opened by 

 castor oil ; and if inflammatory 

 symptoms supervene, to be 

 speedily treated by general 

 and local bleeding, fomenta- 

 tions, the warm bath, blisters, 

 and saline cooling medicinei. 



MERCURY. 



Corrosive Sublimate. 



Very similar to those of 

 arsenic. 



An active emetic, and im- 

 mediately after, copious pro- 

 portions of the whites of eggs 

 beat up with milk or with wa- 

 ter. Milk, linseed tea. barley 

 water with gum arable, fol- 

 lowed by a dose of cantor oil 

 as in cantharides ; and in case 

 of inflammation, general and 

 local bleeding and blisters, 

 according to the circumstances 

 of the case. 



