Poisons & Antidotes
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942
---Gelsemium---
Symptoms: Giddiness, nausea, paralysis of muscles of mouth and throat, indistinct speech, difficult or impossible deglutition; precordial oppression, difficulty of respiration; delirium.
Treatment: Emetics or gastric lavage; recumbency, heat to body, cold to head; strychnine, morphine, atropine, caffeine, nitroglycerin.
