6o The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



symptom. Dr. Samuel Wright has found that if the ad- 

 ministration of albumen is followed up by giving some 

 astringent decoction or infusion, the beneficial effects are 

 more complete, because the compound formed is less 

 soluble in an excess of albumen. Albumen is chiefly use- 

 ful in the early stage of poisoning with corrosive subli- 

 mate, and is particularly called for when vomiting does 

 not take place. But it further appears to be an ex- 

 cellent demulcent in the advanced stages." 



Five or six parts of fresh gluten, in 50 parts of a solu- 

 tion of soft soap, has been found also a successful antidote, 

 and where neither albumen nor gluten is at hand, milk is a 

 convenient and useful substitute. Iron filings, the proto- 

 sulphuret of iron, meconic acid, and charcoal have each 

 been advocated as mercurial antidotes. 



" The treatment of mercurial salivation consists in expo- 

 sure to a cool pure air, nourishing diet, and purgatives, if 

 the intestinal canal is not already irritated. In some of 

 the inflammatory affections it induces, venesection is 

 required, in others it is hurtful. In some complaints in- 

 duced by mercury, as in iritis, the poison appears to be its 

 own antidote, for nothing checks the inflammation so soon 

 and so certainly as mercurial salivation. 



" Dr. Finlay, of the United States, proposed to check 

 mercurial salivation by small doses of tartar emetic fre- 

 quently repeated, so as to act on the skin ;* and Mr. Daniel 

 has recommended large doses of the acetate of lead as an 

 effectual antidote for the same purpose.t 



" Dr. Klose, a German physician, says he has found 



iodine to possess the property of arresting the effects of 



mercury on the mouth.J The iodide of potassium is 



generally acknowledged to be one of the best remedies for 



eradicating the constitutional infirmities left in many by 



severe courses of mercury." 



' Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxix. 21S. 

 t Lond. Med. Repos. N. S., vi. 368. 

 X Lond. Med. Gazette, 1836-37, ii. 144. 



