The ready adviser and family guide : a new compilation of valuable recipes and guide to health with directions what to do in cases of emergency : comprising over one thousand valuable rules and recipes useful to every body, and divided into four parts with a full index for each part / by Isaac Shinn.

  • Shinn, Isaac.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The ready adviser and family guide : a new compilation of valuable recipes and guide to health with directions what to do in cases of emergency : comprising over one thousand valuable rules and recipes useful to every body, and divided into four parts with a full index for each part / by Isaac Shinn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    proper means be not soon administered, the patient is seized with great anxiety, hiccoughing, faintings, and coldness of the extremities. On the first appearance of these symptoms, give imme- diately from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful (according to age) of ground mustard, and the same quantity of common salt, in half a pint or less of water, warm or cold, warm being the best, which usually makes the patient vomit almost immediately, and which may be repeated every five or ten minutes. If no mustard is on hand, give large quantities of new milk and salad oil, or oil and warm water, or fresh butter melted and mixed with warm water; or if none of these are at hand, three or four grains of tobacco (a small quid) will usually operate as a ready emetic. Some of these, or other emetics, are to be taken as long as the inclination to vomit continues, or until the stomach has become entirely empty. Lest there be any remnant of the poison, however small, or its effects, left in the stomach, let the patient take a dose of the best antidote on hand; and if nothing better at hand, give the white of an egg, or a cup of strong coffee. Should there be any delay, from any cause, in adminis- tering an emetic, give immediately a dose of the best anti- dote you have at hand for the poison taken. It is sometimes best to give an antidote first, and then an emetic, and after thoroughly vomiting, and the stomach has become quieted, give another portion of the antidote. But above all things give an emetic as soon as possible, as life may depend on a prompt and thorough cleansing out of the stomach Poisons, Mineral and Vegetable.—Arsenic (Ratsbane).— Give an emetic; then the white (albumen) of eggs, lime water, chalk and water, or calcined magnesia, and the pre- parations of iron, particularly hydrate. Alcohol.—Give an emetic; then dash cold water on the head, and give ammonia (spirits of hartshorn).