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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    ing, cramp, cold sweats, insensibility, convulsions, and death. TREATMENT. Whites of eggs to be mixed with water, and one to be given every two or three minutes to promote vomiting, and to lessen the virulence of the poison. Milk in large quantities, gum water, or linseed tea, sugar and water, or water itself at about 80. Gluten as it exists in wheat flour, decomposes sublimate, and should be given mixed with water. In- flammatory consequences to be antici- pated, and to be subdued bv the usual remedies TESTS. Mercurial preparations heated to red- ness in a glass tube with potash, arc decomposed, the quick silver being vo- latilized. The oxy-muriate is precipi- tated white by ammonia, yellow by potash, and of an orange colour by lime water 3 by nitrate of tin a copious dark brown precipitate is formed, and by albumen mixed with cold water, a white floceulent one. The red and nitric oxides may be dis-