60 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 The iodide of potassium is 
generally acknowledged to be one of the best remedies for 
eradicating the roHsetucoazl infirmities ba in many by 
severe courses of mercury.” 
* Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, Si 218. 
¢ Lond. Med. Repos. N.S., vi. 368 
} Lond. Med. Gazette, 1836-37) i il. 144. 
