Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,
Poisons and Their Remedies

aid" effort in a case Of poison it to
enable the system to eject the
poison. Usually emetics are employ
ed. Next, to counterfeit the serious
effects; third to begin the restoration
of it's normal tone. One of my own
babies was once poisoned through
the giving of laudanum by an ig-
norant servant nurse. The first thing
We did was to give ipecac to provoke
vomiting. The dose was so large
| that the child's stomach rejected it
quickly. There are mineral and vege-
table acids that are deadly, such as
nitric, carbolic, sulphuric and oXalic
acids. These rapidly corrode the
stomach and re generally fatal.
Such things should be. kept under
There are virulent irritants, like ar
senic, iodine and phosphorus.
Prussic acid, chloroform and opium
4elong to the neurotic poisons, pro-
paralysiss-and are deadly.
Morphine and alcohol affect the
brain directly; strychinne affects the
spinal cord; antimony and arsenic
the stomach; digitales, they say, af-
fects the heart.
Generally victim is attacked aft
er eating or drinking, and violent
pain is produced in the stomach,
nausea, commissions purging, de-
lerlum, great drowsiness, etc, ETC.
| 1heSe are indications of poison I'm.
mediate medical aid should be OBJ
| tanned.
The use of the stomach pump is
the most reliable means for empty
ing and cleansing the stomach But
the operation should not be attempt
ed by an ignorant or inexperienced
person. The stomach can very easily
De lacerated when it has already cor
rooeo by certain poisons before
named The safest and easiest, for
and freely.
Lukewarm water. in which mus
tard has been dissolved is excellent
Antldotes are necessary to combine
WIN VIII the poison and procure harm
Oxalic acid can easily be mistaken
Tor EPSON salts. It's symptoms are
a burning sensation during swallow
ing and burning pain in the stomach,
II there Is no vomiting procured the
Ratlent generally dies from collapse.
The antidote is lime in any form,
chalk, whiting, magnesia, etc
- Whlte or eggs is a useful remedy.
So much creosote and carbolic acid
are SO often in use as disinfectants
that there should be special caution
are whitened by contact with the
ACID. The pupils of the eyes are
contracted, breathing becomes ster-
torous, then coma, then death. Oil
can be freely given and then rapidly
removed by emetics. In a household
| where crude potash, caustic soda ana
coarse ammonia are ignorantly swal-
| lowed there is immediate great pain
| in the stomach, also abdominal pain
| and suffocation. Death may ensue
from starvation, because oesophagus
| is closed by structure. I knew a
young man who drank too much kero-
sene, installing it for whisky, and the
| structure could never be loosened,
and he died from starvation.
Too much chlorate of potash used
known to kill. Lemons, vinegar and
water, with draughts of salad oil are
| good remedies, provided the COM
| pound can be vomited or quickly
passed through the bowels by lax
| ative.
Many years ago copied some of
these facts from Harper's Bazaar
| and pasted them in my scrap book.
| Deaths by poisoning are alarming
| ly frequent in these latter days. If
| a person is determined to suicide, the
| quickest and less painful is said to
| be drowning.
But bichloride of mercury, will do
| it's work in few minutes-lf 1t must
| be the poison route.
HOW Little We Know About india
| n ldIS DVOh Witch ny 80
formed traveller says India is. as
large as Europe, with Russia taken zen
| out. In such a large territory the
population is denselv crowded-5l5, p
99o0,oOotM,of men, w won and d,a chill
In natural resources it produces
one-third of the worlds supply of
rice, tea, tobacco and cattle; one.
fifth of it's cotton and one-tenth Of
| it's wheat.
1t is full of the worlds choicesr
minerals. 1t produced in 1917 coal
worth nearly twenty-three millions
of dollars; gold worth half as >, MUCH 81.
million dollars, manganes, eight mil
| lions.
Iron exists in inexhaustible quaint
tiles, also coal in some proportion.
1t is very little understood by
the people on the western hemis-
phere. The missionary song about
India Coral Strand" has covered the
story for more than a hundred years.
The future of India is a problem
but it's vast mineral resources are
certain to come into early notice.