Poisons & Antidotes - From Steadman Shorter's Medical Dictionary, 1943

NOTE - This is posted as historical informaton only! For current medical information, call your local Poison Control Center. For a medical emergency, call you local authorities.

Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942

Poisons & Antidotes

In all cases of poisoning by substances taken by way of the stomach there are five indications for immediate treatment.
1. Act quickly.
2. Empty the stomach by lavage or emetic - the first even if the poison itself has caused vomiting, but not the second when corrosives have been taken.
3. Neutralize by the appropriate antidote whatever remains in the stomach, despite emetics or lavage, bearing in mind that some poisons are secreted again in the stomach after having been absorbed.
4. Aid elimination by the bowels and kidneys of what has been absorbed.
6. Treat the condition resulting from the action of the poison.

The giving of whites of eggs is useful in most cases of poisoning, and tannin is antidotal to all alkaloids.

**Poisons & Antidotes**
Acetanilid (antifebrin) Acids Corrosive Aconite Alcohol Alkalies, Corrosive Ammonia Antipyrine Arsenic Atropine Barbital Group Barium and its Salts Camphor Cantharides Carbolic Acid Carbon Monoxide Chloral Chloroform Cocaine Colchicum Conium Copper Corrosive Sublimate - See Mercuric Salts Croton Oil Digitalis Ergot	Gelsemium Hydrocyanic Acid Iodine Lead Lobelia Mercuric Salts Nitric Acid - See Acids, Corrosive Nitroglycerin Opium Oxalic Acid Paris Green, Rough on Rats - See Arsenic Phenol - See Carbolic Acid Phenacetin - See Antipyrine Phosphorus Physostigma Picrotoxin Strophanthus - See Digitalis Strychnine Sulfonal, Trional Tansy Oil Tartar Emetic Tobacco Veratrum Viride Zinc Salts

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