A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Griffith, R. Eglesfeld (Robert Eglesfeld), 1798-1850.
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[1854]
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Credit: A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    660 BRUCI A—CHLORINE. Morbid J.ppearances. — Fauces, oesophagus, and stomach inflamed and corrodedi mucous membrane gelatinized, duodenum of a yellow color, and thickened j the parts retaining a strong smell of the poison. Tests.—Its color, odor, and volatility. All solutions containing it are rendered colorless by the addition of potassa. On being evaporated, the residue is to be inci- nerated at a low temperature, the ash dissolved in distilled water, filtered, and chlorine passed through the solution. On the addition of ether, the bromine is taken up by that fluid. [With nitrate of silver it afibrds a yellowish-white (bromide of silver') precipitate.] Treatment.—The immediate and free use of albumen or starch, and magnesia. Beucia. See Vegetable Poisons. Calomel. See Mercury. Camphor. See Vegetable Poisons. Cantharides.—An acrid and corroding animal poison. Symptoms.—A burning sensation in the throat; violent pain in the stomach and bowels; nausea, vomiting, and purging—the ejections being frequently bloody and purulent; great heat and irritation of the urinary organs, sometimes the most painful priapism; pulse quick and hard; and convulsions, tetanus, delirium, and syncope. Morbid Appearances.—Inflammation and erosion of the stomach; if in substance, fragments of the flies, adhering to the mucous coat, or mixed with the contents of the stomach; marks of inflammation in the intestines and urinary organs : these are most evident when death does not soon follow the ingestion of the poison. Tests.—The characteristic green, shining appearance of the fragments of the flies, and the character of the symptoms. Treatment.—The promotion of vomiting by means of warm demulcents; copious dilution, bleeding, the warm bath, opiate frictions, enemata of mutton broth, lauda- num, &c. Camphor, though not an antidote, alleviates some of the most distressing symptoms. Carbonic Acid Gas. Symptoms.—Great drowsiness; difficulty of respiration ; loss of sensibility; the countenance of a livid or deep leaden color. Morbid Appearances.—^Whole body, but especially the face, swollen, which is also usually livid, and the features distorted; eyes generally prominent, and retaining their brilliancy. Vessels of the brain and lungs in a state of congestion. Tests. — Expose a vessel, fllled with lime-water, to the deleterious atmosphere, when, if carbonic acid be present, it will assume a milky appearance, and let fall a white precipitate. A lighted candle will detect the presence of carbonic acid gas (if in excess) by being immediately extinguished in the tainted atmosphere; it must, for this purpose, be held near the floor. But the utmost caution should be observed in introducing lighted tapers into close situations supposed to contain this gas, lest an explosive hydrocarbon may, instead, be met with. Treatment.—Kemove the patient from the situation or apartment in which the poison has been inhaled; or open the doors, windows, &c., for admission of pure air. Continued application of cold water to the head and neck. Bleeding may be neces- sary ; or cupping at back of the neck. Cautious inhalation of steam from warm water placed in a convenient vessel. Chlorine.—An acrid gaseous poison. Symptoms.—Great and painful constrietion of the glottis, cough, sensation of suf- focation, alternating with asphyxia; if the case is protracted, inflamfiiation of the