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Paraffin oil. —Stomach tube or emetic. Stimulants. Hot bottles and 
blankets. Friction. 
3. Nerve poisons, which act on the nervous system and cause 
symptoms, such as headache, drowsiness, or convulsions, e.g., alcohol, 
strychnine, opium, etc. 
Alcohol. —Stomach tube and emetics. Apply cold water to the head. 
One pint of coffee, hot and strong, should be given by the mouth or 
lower bowel. Solution of ammonia may be held cautiously under the 
nose. 
Opium.— (Chlorodyne, laudanum, morphia.) Stomach tube or emetic. 
Strong hot coffee, one pint by mouth or bowel. Sal volatile or carbonate 
of ammonia, well diluted, may be given freely. Antidote: permanganate 
of potash eight grains in an ounce of water, give one teaspoonful every 
five minutes; or tincture of belladonna, thirty drops. Pinching, flapping 
with towels. Make the patient walk about. Artificial respiration if the 
patient is insensible. 
Strychnine. —(Nux vomica.) Stomach tube or emetic, put patient 
under chloroform or ether; or administer bromide of potassium, two 
drachms with chloral thirty grains, in two ounces of water. Artificial 
respiration. 
Belladonna .—(Deadly nightshade.) Stomach tube or emetic. Castor 
oil, one ounce, as a purge. Hot coffee. Warm and cold douche 
alternately. Hypodermic injection of morphia. Hot bottles and blankets. 
Artificial respiration. Friction. 
Travellers may be poisoned in the following ways : — 
1. By poisonous bites, arrow wounds, etc. 
2. By eating food poisoned by natives. 
3. By eating poisonous plants, etc. 
4. By eating bad meat or fish. 
The treatment of snake-bites and arrow wounds has already been dealt 
with. 
Poisoned food and poisonous plants .—Food is occasionally poisoned by 
natives, either by adding strophanthus leaves or other poisons. The 
eating of such articles may be followed by severe pain, colic, vomiting, 
diarrhoea or other symptoms. The general line of treatment should 
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