A manual of toxicology; in which the symptoms, treatment, and tests of the various poisons, mineral, vegetable, and animal, are concisely stated. To which are added, directions for the recovery of persons in a state of suspended animation / by William Stowe.

Date:
1823
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Credit: A manual of toxicology; in which the symptoms, treatment, and tests of the various poisons, mineral, vegetable, and animal, are concisely stated. To which are added, directions for the recovery of persons in a state of suspended animation / by William Stowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    copious stools, constriction of the throat, cramps, symptoms of intoxication, and prostration of strength. TREATMENT. Vomiting to be excited by tickling the throat with a feather or the finger, and by large draughts of mild fluids; or allayed by opium according to the pre- vious effect of the poison. The best an- tidotes are, decoctions of astringent vegetables, such as oak or willow bark, or gall nuts, strong tea, &c., which should be given freely to dilute and de- compose the poison. TESTS. Tartarised antimony is precipitated from its solution of an orange or deep brownish red colour by sulphureted hydrogen and the hydro-sulphurets; white, by sulphuric acid, alkalies, lime, or barytes water. Alkaline and earthy neutral salts do not affect it, but salts with excess of acid do. Infusion of galls occasions a copious whitish yellow pre- cipitate. The muriate is a dark heavy fluid, to which, if water be added, a white preci- pitate is formed.