Smother a Fire with carpets, etc.; water will often spread burning oil and increase the danger.
Before Passing through Smoke take a full breath and then stoop low; but if carbonic acid gas is suspected then walk erect.
Suck Poisoned Wounds unless your mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound, or better, cut out the part without delay. Hold the wounded part as long as can be borne to a hot coal or end of a cigar.
POISONS AND THEIR TREATMENT
The treatment of poisons in general consists of the use of substances which, by combining chemically with an injurious dose, will neutralize, as acids with alkalies and vice versa; by solvents, which take up the poison, as olive oil with carbolic acid; and by emetics which produce vomiting and dislodge the poison. The stomach pump is also used, if available, to empty the stomach, and for some poisons electricity is used.
If the exact poison is unknown it is best to follow a general plan of treatment. We want an emetic, an antidote and a cathartic. For the first a draught of warm water and tickling the throat with a finger or a feather will generally succeed. For an antidote that will neutralize the great majority of poisons give a mixture of equal parts of calcined magnesia, pulverized charcoal and sesquioxide of iron, mixed thoroughly. Castor oil is the best cathartic for general use in poisoning.
Here are a few special instructions for the treatment of the more common cases of poisoning:
For carbolic acid give olive oil or castor oil or glycerine.
For ammonia give frequently a tablespoonful of vinegar or lemon juice, and follow this with a cathartic of castor oil.
For alcohol empty the stomach by emetics, warm salt water, repeated at short intervals, being the best. If the head is hot, dash cool water upon it. Keep up motion and rubbing and slapping to increase the circulation.