Antidotes.—­Lemon juice and water; vinegar and water, half and half.

Treatment.—­Milk, soothing drinks; sweet oil or castor oil, bland drinks like flaxseed tea, slippery elm, albumen (white of egg) water.  The oil should be used last.

Laudanum.  Symptoms.—­Excitement at first, soon weariness weighty limbs, sleepiness, pin-point pupils, pulse and breathing slow and strong, patient roused with difficulty and later it is impossible, snoring breathing.

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Treatment.—­This is a dangerous poison.  A stomach pump should be used.  Emetics, such as mustard and warm water or warm salt water or vaselin, etc.  Keep patient awake, stimulants, coffee enemas, artificial respiration, etc.

Mercuric chloride.  Symptoms.—­Burning heat in stomach and bowels, vomiting, diarrhea, with bloody stools, tongue white, shriveled, suppressed urine, gums sore, salivation.

Antidote.—­Milk or white of eggs; one egg for four grains of drug, flour paste.

Treatment.—­Cause vomiting after the antidote has been given, then give soothing drinks and dose of castor oil.

Morphine.  Symptoms.—­Excitement at first, soon weariness, weighty limbs, sleepiness, pin-point pupils, pulse and breathing slow and strong; patient roused with difficulty and later it is impossible; snoring breathing.

Treatment.—­This is a dangerous poison.  A stomach pump should be used.  Emetics, such as mustard and warm water or warm salt water, or vaselin, etc.  Keep patient awake; stimulants, coffee enemas, artificial respiration, etc.

Nux vomica.  Symptoms.—­Appear quickly.  Terrible convulsions, in paroxysms, devilish grin, the body is curved backward, jaw set.

Treatment.—­Cause vomiting with warm salt water, warm mustard water, lard, vaselin, etc.; sixty grains of bromide of potash and thirty grains of chloral hydrate by the rectum.  Dark quiet room.

Nitric acid.  Symptoms.—­The stomach and bowels are irritated and inflamed, the mouth may burn and bleed; swallowing is difficult.  “Coffee grounds” vomiting.  Pulse feeble, clammy skin.

Oxalic acid.  Symptoms.—­Hot acrid taste; burning, vomiting, collapse, numb and stupid.

Antidotes.—­Lime or chalk.

Treatment.—­Medicines, soothing drinks, flaxseed tea, etc.

Opium.  Symptoms.—­Excitement at first, soon weariness, weighty limbs, sleepiness, pin-point pupils, pulse and breathing slow and strong, patient roused with difficulty and later it is impossible, snoring breathing.

Treatment.—­This is a dangerous poison.  A stomach pump should be used.  Emetics, such as mustard water, or warm salt water or vaselin, etc.  Keep patient awake, stimulants, coffee enemas, artificial respiration, etc.