News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1898-02-23
PolsoNs and ANTlpoTEs
Some Directions In 'Tirst Aid to the In.
Jured' Courses.


jared" Courses.
Even in the city cases of poisoning some
times prove fatal because o physician can
not be procured in time TO administer the
necessary remedies, and 20 would be a wise
precaution for every housel u to have
some general directions at hand for sn
emergency. Tho New York Society For
Instruction in First Aid % the Injured
teaches is Glasses 80 symptoms and rem
edies for various poisons as follows:
Among the puisons known as irritaut'
are arsenic in its numerous forms, cor
rosive sublimGte, sugar of lead, white
lead, the strong acids, such as sulphuric,
or yitriol, muriatic, nitric, oxalic and car
bolic; the strong alkalies, such as Soda
potash, lime and ammonia water The
syn toms of poisoning by an irritant are
severe pains in the stomach and abdomen,
nausea, vomiting, purging, faintness and
often feeble pulse and breathing The
treatment is first to cause vomiting by Civ
ing a tumblerful of warm mot hot) water
with tablespoonful of ground dry mus
tard stirred in it, or by pushing the fore
finger as far as possib!S down the throat.
The forefinger is the best possible emetic.
After causing the patient to vomit freely,
give large drafts Of milk, or the whites Of
a couple of eggs, not beaten. If the poison
were an acid, give also magnesia or cook
ing soda to neutralize. If an alkali, give
lemon juice or a tablespoonful of vinegar.
The systemic" poisons are opium, NOR
phia, laudanum, paregoric, belladcnna,
atropia, aconite, henbaue, or hyosoyamus,
stramoniuIn, prussiC acid cyanide of po-
tassium, nux yomica strychnia, alcohol,
chloroform and ether The symptoms
differ with the different poisons, bat as
rule there is gradually Increasing seepi-
ness, stupor insensibility or perhaps de-
lirium and stertorous CT puffy h.s-tA
ing.
In opium poisoning (Which includes
morphia, laudanum and pareRoric) the
pupils Of the eyes are contracted to the
size of small pinhoads, breathing Is very
slow and tho fuce often extremely pale.
In stryehnia poisoning there are eouyul-
sions almost likee epilepsy, and the jaws mo
set firmly together In bellGdonna. atTapia,
hyoscyamus and stramonium the pupils 81
the eye are dilatgd, tie pulse rapid ana the
appearance is chat Of fever In aconite,
choral and tobacco poisoning there is
great pr0stration, the pulse is feeble ana
Che face pale
The first thing to be done, as in the 9TH
! er poisons, is to cause repeated vomiting,
using the same means After the emeto
has acted freely, give strong black coffee in
| frequent doses III q case of opium poison
| ing, on no account allow the patient to 90
to sleep. Keep him walking up and down,
! slapping him on the back and chest with a
wet towel, but be careful not to exhaust
him IL symptoms OF collapse appear, put
hot applications on the abdomen and legs
! The symptoms arc feeble breathing, face
pale, pinched about the nose and anxious
| eyelids dropping, eyes dull pulse feeble
and skin cold
| If the respiration becomes slower than
| five or six bregths in minute, begin arti
| fetal respiration and continue until no
longer necessary. Artificial respiration il
! produced by laying the patient on his back,
with roll of cloth under the shoulders.
Draw the tongue well out and tie ID
| against the lower teeth by laying the cen
ter of a dry strip OF cloth on it, crossing
the cloth under the chin, carrying ends
| around the neck and tying at side of neck.
! Then kneel behind his head grasp his
| arms half way between elbows ana wrists,
| and draw them up and over his head until
his bands touch the floor behind Hold
them there for fully two seconds, then
carry them back until they rest against
the sides of the chest and press them firm
| ly against the chest for two seconds. Re
peat until natural respiration takes place
| Tho method is the Same as in cases of
| drowning
Permanganate OF potassium is an anti
dote to morphine, but coffee is valuable in
all systemic Eoisons - New York Tribune
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