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quantity of cold water, I immediately gave the pa- 
tient a bafin lukewarm, and repeated it as faft as pof- 
fible, conjuring her to ufe her utmoft refolution to 
fwailowj which flie certainly did in a mod; furpriling 
manner. After the third bafin, file vomited very 
freely : what was brought up fmelt very ftrong of the 
camphor, and feemed to contain a good deal of the 
tin&ure, with the gum feparated from the fpirit. 
She ftill drank on, but complained of excefiive 
burning and torture in her fiomach, crying out con- 
tinually, file was burnt to death. 
I had then recourfe to oil between whiles, in the 
quantity of two or three ounces at a time ; and 
drenched her plentifully fometimes with oil and 
fometimes with water. She vomited very copioufly, 
and I repeated the oil and water interchangeably, till 
file had taken, as well as I could guefs by the vef- 
fels, two gallons of water and a flafk of oil in a very 
fiiort time -f. 
Imagining 
t Dr. Sydenham, being called to a man, who had taken Mercur. 
fiiblim. corrof about an hour before the do£lor faw him, the poifon 
having afteited his lips, &c. only ordered water to be taken in a 
large quantity, and thrown up copioufly in gliflers. But as the 
corrofive fublimate of mercury is to be confidered as a poifon, whofe 
cauftic acrimony confifls in a faline principle, and water is the pro- 
per folvent, diluent, and vehicle of all faline fubflances, the pro- 
priety of Sydenham’s ordering water alone is fufficiently apparent. 
Poifons of a faline nature being difl'olved in the fluids of the ftomach 
and inteftines, do not confine their ravages to thefe parts only, but 
are apt to enter the abforbent veflels, and infinuatc thetnfelves into 
the road of the circulation. Water is here a good antidote, as it di- 
lutes fuch fubflances, wafhes them off the fenfible membranes, de- 
liroys their acrimony, and readily palling through all forts of canals, 
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