Iodine (used for external application).—If it has been swallowed, give a paste of starch, or flour and water.
Lead, Salts of (Sugar of Lead, Lead Paint).—After an emetic, administer as much Epsom salt, or Glauber's salt, as the patient can drink. Then give large quantities of milk and whites of eggs.
Lunar Caustic, Nitrate of Silver.—Give a large teaspoonful of common salt, in a glass of water. Repeat the dose every ten minutes for an hour. Then give a dose of castor-oil, and let the patient drink freely of flaxseed tea, barley water, or sweet milk.
Muriates of Tin and Zinc.—These poisons are sometimes found in canned goods—fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats. They cause nausea, vomiting, sudden failure of the vital forces, and sometimes cramps and convulsions. Milk, the whites of eggs, strong tea, or tincture of Peruvian bark, should be given. After the violent symptoms have subsided, the patient should drink freely of flaxseed tea or barley water.
Phosphorus, Matches.—Give large quantities of warm water containing calcined magnesia, chalk, or whiting.
Prussic Acid.—Liquor of ammonia, in doses of ten drops to a tablespoonful of water, should be given every fifteen minutes, until the patient is out of danger. Also apply smelling salts to the nose, dash cold water in the face, and give stimulants.
Verdigris.—Give sugar, milk, and whites of eggs in large quantities, then strong tea, but no acids of any kind.
Poisons—Vegetable. Aconite.—Induce free vomiting, then give brandy or whisky every half hour until the dangerous symptoms are allayed.
Alcohol, Spirits.—Give half a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in sweetened water every half hour. Bromide of potassa, in doses of fifteen to thirty grains, every two or three hours, will also be found useful.
Cocaine is the alkaloid of the coca plant of South American origin. It is generally employed in the form of muriate of cocaine and principally used as a local anæsthetic. It should only be used under the direction of a physician. It may occasion dangerous effects even in doses usually deemed safe. When it has been taken internally, the proper antidote is a powerful emetic followed by stimulants—such as liquor and spirits of ammonia—administered internally. When it has been used to a dangerous extent externally, give whisky or brandy and ammonia.