Ingredients
- a teaspoonful of sulphur
- a tablespoonful of antimonial wine
Directions
Q.—If a person has swallowed a mineral poison, such as arsenic, what 1s the best antidote ?
A.—A teaspoonful of sulphur, or halta teaspoonful of pearl-ash, or a wine-glass of soap-suds. After a little, give a tablespoonful of antimonial wine, and plenty of
warm water. Q.—If a person such as sulphuric acic is the best antidote ? A,—Lime, chalk, pearl-ash, magnesia, carbonate } soda, OF soap-suds, and a plenty of warm water; a des sertspoonful of antimonial wine should be added if at hand. lhe chalk or lime, etc., unites with the oxalic acid, and forms oxalate of lime, which is quite innoc-
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A.—A teaspoon the patient walking.
O- Tf chlorine has been taken, date?
A,—Ammonia, whi chlorine.
Q.—lt iodine has what is the best antidote ?
A,.—Iron-filings are the dose of iodine.
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Q.—Ifa person feels faint from the fumes of prussic acid, what is the best antidote ? .
A.—To smell the vapors of strong ammonia, which will soon restore consciousness.
_—How are warts, etc., to be removed ?
A.—By rubbing them with common solid potash ?
Q.—What is the best antidote to verdigris
A.—Sugar, or white of egg.
Q.—What is the best antidote to corrosive sublimate :
A.—White of egg, or milk ; which will combine with them, and neutralize their poisonous qualities.
Q.—If a person has eaten too much fruit, what is the best antidote ?
A,—Lime, chalk, pearl-ash, magnesia, carbonate of soda or soap-suds. Great relief is often found by eating the hard part of cheese (cut close to the rind) thickly covered with common salt; the reason is plain.