(
Corrosive sublimate; calomel; red precipitate; vermilion; turbeth mineral; prussiate of mercury
.)
| E | Acid metallic taste; tightness and burning in the throat; pain in the back part of the mouth, stomach, and bowels; anxiety of countenance; nausea; and vomiting of bloody and bilious fluids; profuse purging, and difficulty of making water; pulse small, hard, and quick; skin clammy, icy coldness of the hands and feet; and death in 24 or 36 hours. |
| A | White of eggs mixed with water, given as above; milk; flour and water, mixed pretty thick; linseed tea; and barley water. |
| T | Give large draughts of warm water, if you cannot get anything else; strong emetic of ipecacuanha, the stomach-pump, a dose of castor oil and laudanum. Apply poppy-head fomentations to bowels, and leeches if the belly is very tender. |
1348. Antimony
(
Tartar emetic; butter of; Kermes' mineral
.)
| E | A rough metallic taste in the mouth, nausea, copious vomitings, sudden hiccough, purging, pains resembling those caused by colic, frequent and violent cramps, sense of choking, severe heartburn, pain at the pit of the stomach, difficult breathing, wildness of speech, cramp in the legs, and death. |
| A | Decoction or tincture of galls; strong tea; decoction or powder of Peruvian bark. |
| DA | White vitriol, ipecacuanha, as emetics. |
| T | Give large draughts of water, or sugar and water, to promote vomiting; apply leeches to the throat and stomach if painful; and give one grain of extract of opium dissolved in a wineglassful of sugar and water, as soon as the vomiting ceases, and repeat three times at intervals of a quarter of an hour; and finally, one grain, in a little castor oil emulsion, every six hours. |