Essay on poisons; embracing their symptoms, treatment, tests, and morbid appearances. To which are added the means for treating cases of suspended animation / [Thomas Castle].

  • Castle, Thomas, 1804?-1840?
Date:
1837
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Credit: Essay on poisons; embracing their symptoms, treatment, tests, and morbid appearances. To which are added the means for treating cases of suspended animation / [Thomas Castle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ried; cold perspirations and other symptoms. Treatment. If vomiting has not taken place, let the patient swallow large draughts of warm water, and tickle the throat: while that is doing, prepare without loss of time, some vegetable decoction, such as decoction of bark, infusion of galls and common tea. Tinc- ture of bark, bark in powder, mucila- ginous drinks, and milk, are also pro- per. If the stomach should continue very irritable, give opiates. Treat other symptoms according to their nature. Tests. 1. With muriatic and sul- phuric acids, lime water, and the alka- lies, it forms a white precipitate. 2. A decoction of oak bark or galls, throws. down a yellowish precipitate. Morbid appearances. Have not been often witnessed, but signs of local in-