What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • Murrell, William, 1853-1912.
Date:
1897
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Credit: What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he should not use more than half the ma- terial. In some cases the tests are chiefly chemical and in others almost entirely physiological. An analytical chemist is as a rule not the best man to undertake a pharmacological investi- gation. An Unsuspected Source of Poison- ing. There is a special source of accidental poison- ing which is not generally recognised. I refer to the use of pills containing active ingredients and coated with a preparation which dissolves very slowly. It is perhaps not generally known that some coatings take three or four days to dissolve. If a patient, for example, were tak- ing digitalis pills three or four times a day it might happen that no effect of any kind would be experienced until after an unusually hearty meal, when all the coatings might be dissolved at once and the patient would unexpectedly show symptoms of poisoning. This is not a mere random statement for I recently had a case of digitalis poisoning under my care which