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^ Send for a physician. Induce vomiting-, by- 

 tickling throat with feather or fing^er. Drink hot 

 water or strong: mustard and water. Swallow 

 sweet oil or whites of eg^g-s. Acids are antidotes 

 for alkalies^ and vice versa. 



ACIDS^ Mineral.^ Q\izS}^, mag-nesia (plaster 

 off wall in emerg^ency), solution carbonate of 

 soda, emollient drinks, fixed oils. Carbolic-^Any 

 soluble sulphate, such as magnesia. Hydrocy- 

 anic.-- Fresh air and artificial respiration, with 

 cold eft'usion. 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. 



Belladonna.— Emetics — mustard flour in 

 water; give physostigma or pilocarpine; cold 

 to head. 



Chlorine Water.— Albumen, white of 

 egg, milk, flour. 



Chloroform.— Fresh air, artificial respira- 

 tion (inclining head down, pull tongue forward), 

 brandy and ammonia intravenously in leg, the 

 HYPODERMIC injection of 15 m. tincture of digi- 

 talis and 1-60 of a grain of atropine. 



Colchicum.— Emetics, followed by demul- 

 cent drinks. If coma be present, brandy, am- 

 monia, cofl!*ee. 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 parts of lime water and milk. 

 Emetics, or evacuate stomach by pump. 



Copper Sulph.— Yellow prussiate of potash 



or soap. , , , 



Croton Oil.— Emetics ; wash out stomach, 

 followed by mucilaginous fluids containing 



opium. ^ ^ ^ 



Digitalis.— Recumbent posture after eniet- 



ics. Emetics and opium ; give tincture aconite. 

 Iodine.— Emetics and demulcent drinks, 



starch or flour diff'used in water, opium and ex- 



ternal heat. 



Lead Salts.— Any soluble sulphate, either 

 magnesia or soda, succeeded by emetics, and 

 afterwards by opium and milk. ^ 



LOBELL A.— Stimulants externally and inter- 

 nally; external heat. 



Morphine.— Same as opium. 



Opium.— Atropine hypodermically till respi- 

 rations number 8 per minute. Stomach pump, 

 stimulants, external and internal, brandy and cof- 

 fee, cold aff'usion, ammonia to nostrils, galvanic 

 shocks, compelling to move about, artificial res- 

 piration, 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, demul- 

 cents, vinegar. ^ _ 



Silver Nitrate.— Solution of common salt 

 and demulcent drinks. Emetics. 



TOBACCO.— Emetic, stimulants, external and 

 internal, strychnine, external heat. 



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