178 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
causes death by aspnoca. The breathing is slow and gasping ; 
the heart’s action and pulse almost imperceptible; the pupils 
are dilated; consciousness is abolished; death is usually 
preceded by suffocative convulsions. Antidotes: The frst 
measure to be adopted is artificial respiration, which must be 
kept up for some length of time. Anauxiliary measureis the 
subcutaneons injection of atropia. Ammonia inhaled or 
injected into the veins. 
Acrp, Murtartic, (spirits of salts)—Treatment same ag 
sulphuric acid. 
Acip, Nirric.—Treatment as in sulphuric acid. 
Acip, Nirro-Mouriatic.—Treatment as in sulphuric acid. 
Acip, OxaLic.—Symptoms occur immediately with intense 
pain, vomiting of a brownish or greenish mucus. Sometimes 
the gastric symptoms are less prominent than the nervous 
symptoms. Antidotes: Lime, common chalk, whitewasn. lime 
from ceilings of rooms, emetics. Do not give the alkaline 
carbonates. 
Acip, SuteHuric.—Antidotes: Immediate use of chalk, 
magnesia, whitewash, or soap in milk or water. 
Acip, TarTaric.—Antidotes : Magnesia, lime, scap. 
AconiTE (Monkshood).—When an individual is fully 
under the influence of aconite, the pulsations of the heart are 
diminished in number. In fatal doses there is loss of sight, 
hearing, and feeling, followed by syncope, convulsions, and 
death. Antidotes: Empty the stomach, alcoholic stimulants, 
injection of ammonia into the veins ; keep the patient quite on 
the back. Digitalis has been strongly recommended to 
maintain respiration. 
AmmontA.—Antidotes: Neutralize the poison by vinegar 
or other dilute acid, and give the general treatment required. 
AnTIMONY.—Symptoms resemble cholera. Olear the 
alimentary canal by tannic acid and opium stimulants. 
