Use stomach-pump or tube, or empty the stomach by emetics.

Hypodermic injections of brandy, inhalations of ether, the alternate hot and cold douche, warmth to the extremities by hot blankets, &c., seem to be the best methods of treatment.

Cantharides—Cantharidine.

Use stomach-pump or tube, if the mucous membrane of the throat is not inflamed; or, administer hypodermic dose of apomorphine, or give emetics—sulphate of zinc, mustard, or ipecacuanha.

Allay pain with morphine. Give plenty of water and demulcent drinks.

Chloral.

Use stomach-pump or tube, and, when the stomach is emptied, introduce by the same means warm coffee, or give a hypodermic injection of apomorphine, or administer emetics of sulphate of zinc, or mustard, or ipecacuanha.

An enema of coffee will be useful.

Keep the limbs warm.

Administer hypodermically 2 or 3 drops of the solution of strychnine at intervals of from fifteen to twenty minutes.