PRUSSIC ACID (oil of bitter almonds), cyanide of potassium.—Take a teaspoonful of hartshorn in a pint of water. Apply smelling salts to the nose, and dash cold water in the face.
STING OF AN INSECT.—Apply a little hartshorn or spirits of camphor, or soda moistened with water, or a paste of clean earth and saliva.
SULPHATE OF IRON (green vitriol).—Give syrup of ipecac, or mustard and warm water, or any convenient emetic; then magnesia and water.
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SELECTED READINGS
TO ILLUSTRATE AND SUPPLEMENT THE TEXT.
Arranged in order of the subjects to which they refer.
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh, and consider."
LORD BACON.
"He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields but did not sow."