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pains, emesis in vomiting animals, diarrhoea, great prostration, 

 cold extremities, vertigo, stiffness or weakness of the hind limbs, 

 dilated pupils, weak pulse and death. If protracted the urine 

 may be bloody and albuminous. 



Lesions. There is more or less intense congestion of the 

 stomach and intestine, yellow shrunken mucosa, abrasions, 

 sloughs, and ulcers, and congested kidneys with yellow cloudi- 

 ness of the epithelium of the convoluted tubes and congestion of 

 the glomeruli. 



Treatment. Wash out the stomach by emesis or the stomach 

 pump and use albuminous and mucilaginous agents freely. 



POISONING BY CARBOLIC ACID. 



Susceptibility of cat and other animals. Fatal dose. Effect of dilution 

 and gastric plenitude. Concentrated is corrosive. Symptoms : Salivation, 

 dysphagia, anorexia, thirst, emesis, colic, arched back, odor of the acid, 

 dark, greenish brown, albuminous urine, tremors, lowered temperature, 

 debility, stertor, stupor, coma. Lesions : Whitened corroded mucosa, in- 

 flammation, ecchymosis, dark, liquid blood, brain effusions or extravasa- 

 tions, nephritic congestion. Treatment : Vinegar, alcohol, emesis, demul- 

 cents, Glauber salts. 



The cat is the most susceptible to this poison. For dogs, cats 

 and rabbits from 3 to 4 drops per pound, is the minimum fatal 

 dose. For an ordinary dog the lethal dose is ^ to 1 drachm.' 

 The horse has taken 3 ounces without fatal results, and 15 ounces 

 in a week (Munk). Much depends on the dilution of 'the agent 

 and the plenitude of the stomach. In a concentrated state it acts 

 at once on the mucosa as a caustic abstracting the water and 

 forming a white eschar. 



Symptoms. The concentrated acid causes salivation, dysphagia, 

 anorexia, thirst, emesis in vomiting animals, colics, arched back, 

 retracted abdomen, odor of the acid in the breath, dark or greenish 

 brown albuminous urine, trembling, lowered temperature, de- 

 bility, stertorous breathing, clonic or tonic spasms, paralysis of 

 the hind limbs, stupor, coma and death. 



Lesions. In the mouth, throat, stomach and intestines are 



