HUNTING DIRECTORY. 81 



Vegetable Poisons. 



kind of oil (rancid or otherwise) poured down the throat 

 is advisable. The poison will most likely be either nox 

 vomica, arsenic, or corrosive sublimate ; however, let the 

 poison be what it will, the best remedy is the following : 



Ipecacuanha, fifteen grains 

 water, two table spoonfuls, mixed 



Should it not operate in fifteen minutes, repeat the 

 dose. After the operation 



Take of prepared kali, three drains 

 water, one ounce 



give a table spoonful every fifteen minutes, which will 

 most likely produce vomiting and purging. Afterwards 

 nourishing diet. 



*' Antidote for Vegetable Poisons. — M. Drapiez has 

 ascertained, by numerous experiments, that the fruit of 

 the fcM'illea cordifoha is a powerful antidote against vege- 

 table poisons. He poisoned dogs with rhus toxicoden- 

 dron, hemlock, and nox vomica. All those that were 

 left to the effects of the poison died, but those to whom 

 the fruit of the fewillea cordifolia was administered, re- 

 covered completely, after a short illness. M. Drapiez 

 also took two arrows which had been dipt in the juice of 

 manchinelle, and slightly wounded with them two young 

 cats. To the one of these he applied a poultice, com- 

 posed of the fruit of the fewillea cordifolia, while the 

 other was left without any ^pphcation. The wound of 

 the former speedily healed ; while the other, in a short 

 time, fell into convulsions, and died." 



It is very difficult however to save the life of a dog 

 that has taken poison. Nox vomica is what the base 



