Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    320/332 (page 304)
    POISONING BY THE PREPARATIONS OP TIN. ' 888. Symptoms.—Those common to all the cor- rosive poisons ; sometimes paralysis supervenes, but most frequently death is the result. POISONING BY THE PREPARATIONS OF ZINC. 889. Symptoms.—Taste sour, with a sense of strangulation ; nausea ; vomiting. The symptoms often cease quickly in consequence of the poison being ejected by means of its emetic property; should it, on the contrary, remain in the stomach, the symptoms produced by other corrosive poisons are observed. POISONING BY THE ACIDS. 890. Symptoms.— All the acids produce very nearly the same effects—viz: a taste sharp, burning and disagreeable ; heat and acute pain of the throat, then of the oesophagus, stomach, and intestines; fetor of the breath ; eructations; nausea; vomiting repeatedly a bloody liquid of a yellowish or brown colour, which produces an effervescence on the ground, and deeply reddens tincture of turnsoll; stools copious, more or less tinged with blood-; extreme sensibility of the abdomen ; burning, inces- sant thirst; pain increased by drinking ; pulse small and irregular; urine scanty, and evacuated with difficulty ; respiration laboured ; extreme paleness, with alteration of the face ; cold sweats, and in some instances convulsions ; the intellectual faculties generally remain unimpaired. Very often the poison causes, by its contact with the lips, tongue, and pharynx, yellow or brown eschars, which drop off and produce a loss of POISONING BY ALKALIES AND THEIR SALTS. 891. The Prussic acid, when inoculated on the surface of the body, even in very small quantity, causes almost instant death.