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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    Tabloids of atropine, morphine, &c., may be substituted with advantage for many of these solutions. If the necks of bottles are not carefully ground, the stoppers either leak, or at a critical moment are found to be firmly fixed, whilst tabloids occupy less room, and need not be in stoppered bottles. F. The Poison Book (latest edition). My antidote case has been of the greatest pos- sible use to me. I remember a case in point. A lady’s husband gave her four table-spoonfuls of syrup of chloral by mistake. He did not think of it for some time after, in fact not until they had been in bed for nearly an hour. When I saw the patient she was comatose, her face was livid, the respirations were slow and irregular, and the extremities were deadly cold. I soon got to work with the stomach- tube and washed out the stomach with plenty , of warm water. A table-spoonful of sal vola- tile was introduced in the same way, and a dose of strychnine was given hypodermically. The arms and legs were well rubbed, nitrite of amyl was inhaled, and in half an hour the