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cupful of aqua ammonia add sufficient water to fill the cup. Turn this slowly 
into the bowl of iron and water, and stir constantly. A thick powder will be 
thrown down. Then pour the whole on to a strainer of muslin or other very 
thin material, and throw away the fluid. Return the powder to the empty 
bowl and fill the same with cold water. Stir well and strain as before. The 
powder, having now been well washed, should be forced into the dog as 
rapidly as possible. 
Magnesia has some neutralizing action on arsenic, and in the absence of 
the iron preparation might be given freely. And its effect must be somewhat 
beneficial even if quite a long interval has passed since the poison was taken. 
The essential after-treatment is practically the same as required in cases of 
severe inflammation of the stomach. Of that the use of hot milk and alco- 
holic stimulants should be a part, to combat the prostration and tendency to 
collapse. 
Unless a reasonable amount of caution were displayed, some external 
applications might result in poisoning. Of the agents which appear in such, 
carbolic acid is probably the most common. The symptoms of poisoning 
induced by it are great depression; trembling and twitching of the muscles; 
difficulty in getting about, indicative of threatened paralysis; diarrhea, with 
discharges sometimes bloody; dark, smoky urine; coldness of the body and 
legs; burning of the mouth, throat and stomach ; abdominal pain and tender- 
ness ; lastly, insensibility ; total paralysis; convulsions; and collapse, ending 
in death. Were the victim of large breed, and did he swallow a tablespoonful 
of very nearly pure, liquid carbolic acid, the chances are that he would not 
live more than half an hour or an hour. 
Were they at hand, and could they be given immediately after carbolic acid 
had entered the stomach, much might rightly be expected from alcohol and the 
sulphate of soda. Indeed by some experimenters the former is considered an 
absolute and immediate antidote to the poison; while the latter, dissolved 
with a small quantity of water and given frequently, forms a harmless mixture 
with the carbolic acid. In the absence of either of these there should be 
poured into the stomach of the victim of the poisoning, in generous quantities, 
vinegar and water —in equal parts—raw eggs and water, or sweet oil, for 
the purpose of shielding the lining of that cavity and the intestines from the 
poison. Whiskey and brandy would also be indicated to prevent collapse. 
Small, long haired and very delicately constituted dogs might absorb suffi- 
cient of the poison from a bath were very strong carbolic acid soap used; and 
such accident might possibly occur from a dip made of the acid or some of its 
preparations, in the names of which phenol usually appears. In that case the 
poison would be beyond reach of the antidote, and the requirement be to 
stimulate freely. 
In the dressing of wounds iodoform is often recommended ; and it might 
