Curarine—Woorari—Urari.
The poison is of course introduced by a wound; if any is likely to be still in the wound apply a ligature, suck the wound, and then wash it with a slightly alkaline solution of potassic permanganate.
Keep up the respiration artificially, give plenty of water and a dose of spirits of nitre, apply warmth to the loins. By these means the poison will be rapidly separated by the urine; and, if the patient can only be kept alive by artificial respiration for a little time, he may recover, for elimination is very rapid.
Cyanide of Potassium.—See [Prussic Acid].
Digitalis Group of Heart Poisons, including, besides the Digitalins, Antiarin, Apocynin, Neriin, Oleandrin, Evonymin, Thevetin, Scillain, Strophantin, and Erythrophlein.
Empty the stomach by the tube or pump, or administer a subcutaneous dose (4 drops) of apomorphine, or give a tablespoonful of mustard in water, or sulphate of zinc.
Follow up with strong tea, or half a drachm of tannin, or gallic acid in aqueous solution.
A very small dose of aconitine nitrate in solution (say 1-200th of a grain) may be injected subcutaneously and the effect watched; if in a little time it seems to do good, repeat the dose. On no account let the patient rise from the recumbent posture, or he may faint to death.
Stimulants in small doses may be given frequently by the mouth, or, if there is vomiting, by the bowel.
Ergot.