Paris green, Intense pains in Vomit patient repeatedly,
Rough on rats, stomach and bowels; give hydrated oxide of iron
White arsenic, thirst; vomiting, with magnesia, usually kept
Fowler’s solution, perhaps with blood; by druggists for emergencies;
Scheele’s green. cold and clammy skin. follow with strong solution
of common salt and water.
Other Metallic Poisons:
Blue vitriol, Symptoms in
general, Emetic with lead; none with
Copperas, same as in arsenical copper
and iron; white of
Green vitriol, poisoning. With lead
eggs in abundance with
Sugar of lead, and mercury there may copper;
with iron and lead
Corrosive be a metallic taste in give
epsom salts freely;
sublimate, the mouth. afterwards,
oils, flour, and
Bedbug poison. water.
No emetic with
mercury;
raw eggs;
milk,
or flour, and water.
Phosphorus from
Matches, rat Pain in the
stomach; Cause vomiting.
poisons,etc. vomiting; purging; Strong
soapsuds;
general collapse. magnesia
in water.
Never
give oils.
Opium:
Morphine, Sleepiness; dullness; Cause
vomiting. Keep
Laudanum, stupor; “pin-hole”
patient awake by any means,
Paregoric, pupils; slow especially
by vigorous
Dover’s powder, breathing; profuse
walking; give strong coffee
Soothing syrups, sweat. freely;
dash cold water on
Cholera and diarrhoea face
and chest.
mixtures.
Carbolic Acid:
Creasote. Severe pain in abdomen;
No emetic. Milk or
odor of carbolic acid, flour
and water; white of
mucous membrane in eggs.
around mouth white and
benumbed; cold and
clammy skin.
Aconite:
Wolfsbane Numbness everywhere, Vomit
patient freely.
Monkshood great weakness; cold Stimulating
drinks.
sweat.
Belladonna
Deadly Nightshade Eyes bright, with pupil Vomit
patient freely.
Atropia enlarged; dry mouth and
throat.
Various Vegetable Poisons
Wild parsley, Stupor, nausea, great Cause
brisk vomiting.
Indian tobacco, weakness and other Stimulating
drinks.
Toadstools, symptoms according to
Tobacco plant, the poison.
Hemlock,
Berries of the mountain ash,
Bitter sweet etc.
393. Practical Points about Poisons. Poisons should never be kept in the same place with medicines or other preparations used in the household. They should always be put in some secure place under lock and key. Never use internally or externally any part of the contents of any package or bottle unless its exact nature is known. If there is the least doubt about the substance, do not assume the least risk, but destroy it at once. Many times the unknown contents of some bottle or package has been carelessly taken and found to be poison.


