Acids—Mineral, including Sulphuric, Nitric, Hydrochloric, Glacial Acetic Acids.
Stomach-tube or pump, inadmissible.
Neutralise by calcined magnesia, lime, chalk, or soda, but not with potash, if there is choice.
If no neutralising agent can be immediately procured, then dilute with plenty of water.
Other remedies are—oil, milk, white of eggs, gruel.
It is often recommended in such cases to administer hypodermically a little morphine.
Use at once the stomach-tube or pump, or give emetics of sulphate of zinc, or hypodermic solution of apomorphine.
Keep the patient in the recumbent posture.
After the stomach has been emptied, give atropine, either by hypodermic injection or by the mouth, say 4 drops of the P.B. solution; failing atropine, 20 drops of the tincture of belladonna. The dose may be repeated more or less frequently according to the condition of the patient.