Volume 3

The modern physician : being a complete guide to the attainment and preservation of health, including descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and cure of diseases and ailments; the structure and functions of the human body; sick nursing and invalid cookery; hygiene; the practice of the laws of health and muscular development; the family medicine chest; the care of children and infants; the health and ailments of women; first aid or ambulance work, etc. etc / by Andrew Wilson, assisted by a staff of expert contributors.

Date:
[1904-1905?]
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Credit: The modern physician : being a complete guide to the attainment and preservation of health, including descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and cure of diseases and ailments; the structure and functions of the human body; sick nursing and invalid cookery; hygiene; the practice of the laws of health and muscular development; the family medicine chest; the care of children and infants; the health and ailments of women; first aid or ambulance work, etc. etc / by Andrew Wilson, assisted by a staff of expert contributors. 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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    or any similar oil, should be administered at once in fairly large quantity. White of egg, milk, thin gruel, or even cold water, if nothing else is at hand, should be employed. The special antidotes which should be afterwards administered are those known under the name of alkalies. Such substances are represented by carbonate of soda and water, by lime and water, and by chalk and water. Plaster from the wall made up into a fluid with water might be used if no other remedy of the kind was at hand. Magnesia is also another useful substance for administration in such cases. Carbolic Acid Poisoning. — With reference to the special treatment for carbolic acid poisoning, seeing that this substance is much in common use as a disinfectant, the proper procedure would be that of giving half an ounce of Epsom salts or half an ounce of sulphate of soda in half a pint of warm water. These substances form the special antidotes to carbolic acid, be- cause, uniting with the carbolic acid, they form substances which are of harmless character. The stomach may be carefully washed out with Epsom salts, whilst it is recommended, when this opera- tion has been finished, the stomach should be left with as much of the solution of Epsom salts as it can contain. White of egg given in water is also a remedy for carbolic acid poisoning. This should be administered in large quantities. Castor oil or olive oil might also be given if other means were unavailable, whilst warmth in this case, and in all cases where shock is present, should be applied to the patient’s body. A physician recommends the use of glycerine as an antidote to carbolic acid poison. The stomach is washed out with this substance, a large quantity being employed. In the case of hydrochloric acid (also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt) poisoning the treatment is that of giving large draughts of soap and water, whilst bicarbonate of soda or common washing- soda diluted with water should be freely administered. White of egg and water may be also employed. Nitric Acid is popularly known as aquafortis. The treatment for this form of poisoning is practically that already described in the case of hydrochloric acid, while of sulphuric acid the same remarks hold good. In this case it is important that the treatment should be promptly commenced, so that if nothing more effective is at hand than cold water this last should be given in large draughts. Common washing-soda diluted freely with water, lime water, or bicarbonate of soda in solution, may be used as in the case of the other acids. In cases where sulphuric acid (or vitriol) has been thrown at a person, a crime common in France on the part of jealous women as regards their rivals or unfaithful husbands, the treatment is that of wiping off VOL. in. D