POISONING BY CREOSOTE.
Irritates, coagulates albumen, and blood, arrests heart, colic, emesis, salivation, labored breathing, vertigo. Lesions: Congestion, corrosion, dark clotted blood, odor. Treatment: Mucilaginous agents, emesis, oily laxatives.
On the mucous membrane creosote has a very irritant action, coagulating the albumen, causing violent inflammation. It also coagulates the blood and when injected into the veins, stops the action of the heart. Taken by the mouth it causes violent colics, emesis in vomiting animals, salivation, laborious breathing, convulsions, vertigo and death. At the necropsy the stomach is found congested of a dull red color, and corroded, and the vessels contain dark clotted blood. A dog died from a dose of 2 drachms. The odor of creosote is marked.
Treatment. Emesis, white of eggs, mucilaginous liquids, and oily laxatives.