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meat should never be used in such cases, as it may be dug or 

 pushed out by rats or dogs and eaten by dogs, cats or hogs. 

 It is a good plan to dig a long trench in the ground, cover it 



Reconnoitering the trench. 



with boards, boxes, etc., and feed and poison the rats in this 

 trench. (See cut.) 



Antidotes for Rat Poisons. — If one accidentally takes rat 

 poison, get rid of the poison at once by the use of a stomach 

 pump, if a physician is at hand; if not, by the use of emetics. 

 Vomiting may be excited also by tickling the throat with a 

 feather or with the fingers, as well as by the free administration 

 of warm salt or greasy water. 



Phosphorus: give an emetic of mustard, a tablespoonful 

 stirred to a cream with water, or, better, blue vitriol, three 

 grains, dissolved in water, every five minutes until vomiting 

 occurs. Give a teaspoonful of old, thick oil of turpentine; also, 

 one-half ounce of Epsom salts in half a tumbler of water, and 

 if there be much pain, twenty drops of laudanum in water. 

 Give no other oil, because this promotes the absorption of the 

 poison. 



Arsenic: promote vomiting with copious draughts of warm 

 water or mustard, one tablespoonful stirred to a cream with 

 water. Get from a drug store hydrated peroxide of iron and 

 administer a cupful of it. It may be made by mixing one-half 

 ounce of perchloride of iron with half a tumbler of water and 

 the same quantity of the solution of washing soda. Follow with 

 olive oil or the white of eggs raw, also Epsom salts, one-half 

 ounce to half a tumbler of water; also twenty drops of lauda- 

 num in water, if much pain. 



Strychnine: give emetics, chloroform inhalations, and chloral 



