Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million / Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts

by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

476. Alkalies.—Best remedy is vinegar.

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477. Ammonia.—Remedy, lemon-juice or vinegar, afterwards milk and water or flaxseed tea.

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478. Arsenic.—Remedies, in the first place evacuate the stomach, then give the white of eggs, lime-water, or chalk and water, charcoal and the preparations of iron, particularly hydrate.

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479. Belladonna, or Night Henbane.—Give emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and water or lemonade.

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480. Charcoal.—In poisons by carbonic gas, remove the patient to open air, dash cold water on the head and body, and stimulate nostrils and lungs by hartshorn, at the same time rubbing the chest briskly.