[1] Ringer's "Therapeutics," p. 534.
Experiments with Tartar-Emetic, or Antimony.
Of this poison, an American authority tells us that "the fraction of a grain" may be followed by a fatal result. Dr. Ringer states, nevertheless, that,
"TO A STRONG YOUNG MAN, I gave tartar-emetic in the 1/2-grain doses every ten minutes for nearly seven hours, INDUCING GREAT NAUSEA AND VOMITING with profuse perspiration."[2]
[2] Ibid., p. 273
Twenty-one grains of antimony administered to "a strong young man," though a fatal result may be inducted by a fraction of a single grain!
Poisoning with Alcohol.
With this substance, Dr. Ringer tells us he made a great many observations "every quarter of an hour for several hours ON PERSONS OF ALL AGES…. After poisonous doses, the depression (of temperature) in one instance reached nearly three degrees."
Does this sinister confession mean that even infants were the objects of his scientific zeal? It is certain that some children were subjected to this experiment, for he says:
"In a boy aged ten, who had never in his life before taken alcohol in any form, I found through A LARGE NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS, a constant and decided reduction of temperature."