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First.— Send for a physician. 



Second.— Induce vomiting, by tickling throat with 

 feather or finger. Drink hot water or strong mustard and 

 water. Swallow sweet oil or whites of eggs. 



Acids are antidotes for alkalies, and vice versa. 



Acids, Mineral.— Chalk, magnesia (plaster off wall in 

 emergency), solution carbonate of soda, emollient drinks, 

 fixed oils. 



Acid, Carbolic— Any soluble sulphate, such as mag- 

 nesia. 



. ACID, Hydrocyanic— Fresh air and artificial respira- 

 tion, with cold effusion. Ammonia by inhalation and in- 

 travenously in vein of leg, 



ACONITE.— Emetics, stimulants, external and internal; 

 keep up external heat, keep flat on back. 



ANTIMONY Tart.— Vegetable acids, such as tannic acid, 

 catechu. 



ARSENIC.— Freshly precipitated hydrated sesquioxide of 

 iron made by adding magnesia to any iron solution. 



ATROPIA.— Same as Belladonna. 



Belladonna.— Emetics— mustard flour in water; give 

 physostigma or pilocarpine : cold to head. 



Canthar ides.— Emetics, emollient drinks, opiates by 

 mouth and rectum, large draughts of water to flush kidneys. 



Chlorine Water.— Albumen, white of egg, milk, 

 flour. 



_ Chloroform.— Fresh air, artificial respiration (inclin- 

 ing head down, pull tongue forward ), brandy and ammonia 

 intravenously in leg, the HYPODERMIC injection of 15 m. 

 tincture of digitalis and 1-60 of a grain of atropine. 



COLCHICUM.— Emetics, followed by demulcent drinks. 

 If coma be present brandy, ammonia, coffee. Opium in 

 large dose. Keep up external heat, 



CONIUM.— Emetics, followed by stimulants external and 

 internal. 



Corrosive Sublimate.— Albumen, white of egg ( 4 gr. 

 sublimate require white of one egg), flour, milk. Equal 

 r parts of lime water and milk. Emetics, or evacuate stomach 

 by pump. 



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COPPER Sulph.— Yellow prussiate of potash or soap. 



CROTON Oil. — Emetics; wash out stomach, followed by 

 mucilaginous fluids, containing opium. 



Digitalis.— Recumbent posture after emetics. Emetics 

 and opium ; give tincture aconite. 



Elaterium.— Demulcent drinks, enemeta of opium, and 

 external heat. 



HYOSCYAMUS.— Stomach pump, emetics, stimulants ex- 

 ternal and internal, physostigma and pilocarpine. 



Illuminating Gas.— Hypodermic injections of nitro- 

 glycerin are recommended by Kloman, of Baltimore. 



Iodine.— Emetics and demulcent drinks, starch or flour 

 diffused in water, opium and external heat. 



Lead SALTS.™ Any soluble sulphate, either magnesia or 

 soda, succeeded by emetics, and afterwards by opium and 

 milk. , 



LOBELLA.— Stimulants externally and internally; exter- 

 nal heat. 



Morphine.— Same as opium. 



NUX Vomica.— 30 grs. of chloral and 60 grs. of bromide 

 of potash. Nitrite of amyl. 



OPIUM.— Atropine hypodermically till respirations num- 

 ber 8 per minute. Stomach pump, stimulants, external and 

 internal, brandy and coffee, cold affusion, ammonia to nos- 

 trils, galvanic shocks, compelling to move about, artificial 

 respiration, electric brush. Permanganate of Potash. 



OXALIC ACID.— Lime, not potash or soda. 



Phosphorus.— Sulphate of copper in emetic dose as 

 chemical antidote. No oils. Emetics and purgatives. 



Potash and Soda Salts.— Dilute acetic acid, citric 

 acid, lemon juice, fixed oils, demulcents, vinegar. 



Silver Nitrate.— Solution of common salt and de- 

 mulcent drinks. Emetics. 



Stramonium.— Same as Belladonna. 



Strychnine.— Same as Nux Vomica. 



TOBACCO.— Emetic, stimulants, external and internal, 

 strychnine, external heat. 



ZINC Salts,— Carbonate of soda, emetics, warm demul- 

 cent drinks. 



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