Volume 1

The extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott.

  • Martindale, William, 1840-1902.
Date:
1924-1925
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stings, Wasp, Bee, etc.—Ammonia or any Alkaline Solution. See all Therap. Index, Bites and Stings. Stramonium.—See Atropine. Strophantlius.—After evacuation by emetics and Stomach Tube, Tann\ and, stimulants. Anaesthetics to relieve spasm. Strychnine.—Stomach Tube, Emetics, Potass. Permang. Chloral, Ami Nitrite. Charcoal ad lib. Acid Tannic, Potass. Brom. (I ounce in water uii 30 grains of Chloral Hydrate). Patient may be kept fully under Chloroform < Ether. Artificial respiration if possible (most important). Sublimate.—See Hydrargyrum. Sulphonal.—Empties, Stomach Tube, Strong Coffee, Strychnine, Artifiev, respiration. Sulphuretted Hydrogen.—Amylum Todatum. Tetrachlorethane.—See Jaundice, Vol. II. Tobacco.—See Plants, Unidentified. Trional.—See Sulphonal. Turpentine.—Empty stomach by pump or tube or give emetics—Arpomorphu if necessary, Mag. Sulph., Demulcent Drinks. Verdigris.—See Copper. Vermilion.—See Hydrargyrum. Vermin Killer.—As Strychnine or Arsenic, g v. Veronal.—Empty stomach by pump and, enemata. Coffee, Strychnine, lab diuretics. See also several recent abstracts of poisoning cases under Verona p. 755. Weed Killer.—See Arsenic. White Precipitate.—See Hydrarg. White of Egg freely Zinc Salts.—Not stomach tube. Milk and White of Egg, Olive ot at innocuous Oil, Washing Soda - Electric Shock as from Lire Electric Wire, also Lightning Shock ni burns. Separate from live wire by catching hold of clothing or by using a goi thick layer of cloth (dry) or a newspaper. If necessary cut a live wire with lo< iron scissors in wood handles. For burns Boric compresses. Baise the hea Artificial respiration. See also Vol. II., Radiology Chapter. PROPORTIONAL DOSE TABLE ACCORDING TO AGE (Gaubius For an adult suppose the dose to be 1 or 60 grains. Under 1 year will require i r-2 99 5 99 99 2 99 99 1 99 8 99 99 3 99 99 * 99 10 99 99 4 99 99 l 99 15 99 99 7 99 99 99 20 99 99 14 99 99 * 99 30 99 99 20 99 99 1 99 40 99 21 to 60, the full dose, or 1 99 60 •t Above this age, an inverse gradation must be observed. Another rule is, for children under 12, add 12 to the age, and divide the ai g by the amount thus obtained ; thus for 8 years g \2= ^ ac^u^ dose. Young’s Formula. W. «T. Billing says Young’s and Gaubius’ methods are of little value a suggests the best formula after the 10th year is to multiply the adult do by age x 5 100 or by age. 20 This he found gave a curve which when plotte d o coincides more closely than other systems with the curve obtained by plotti out the percentages of adult weight at ages obtained from birth to 21 yeai which he considers is the average adult age. The new formula, he stab: results in doses which correspond closely with those demanded'—B.M! ii./is, 1177.