The best plan, however, would be to use a stomach-pump. Where Fowler's solution, or any solution of arsenic, has been taken, dialyzed iron, in doses from six to eight drams, may be used as an antidote, causing the arsenic to form an insoluble compound, after which the stomach-pump should be used. Of course, the work should be done very rapidly. Chronic poisoning by arsenic is brought on in many ways. In chronic arsenic poisoning patients lose their hair, dropsy develops, and many die of heart disease and dropsical accumulation.
Arsenical paralysis is developed in some cases.
Ptomaine poisoning, then, may be exogenous or endogenous. The exogenous is taken in, while the endogenous is developed within. Sometimes the poison is due to errors in food combinations. I got no clue pointing to food poisoning of any kind, but I diagnosed the case as ptomaine poisoning. Any fresh meat, if not well taken care of, and allowed to become tainted, may poison, unless cooking has been so thorough as to kill the putrefaction.