What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • Murrell, William, 1853-1912.
Date:
1897
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Credit: What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    actual contact with the poison, and it is a good plan to inject into the orifice made by the fangs of the snake. It is a chemical not a physiological antidote. If limb much swollen make three or four injections at circumference of the swelling. Efficacy of this mode of treat- ment problematic. 8. Potash. May use liquor potasste, one part with six of water, in same way, but would be necessary to use it with more caution. Also give liquor potassas by mouth, twelve minims in brandy every hour; value very doubtful. g. Ammonia. Halford’s plan consists of the injection into the radial vein, by means of a hypodermic syringe of twelve minims of the liquor ammonite fortior, diluted with three times its volume of water. The vein should be first exposed. 10. Olive oil. Olive oil used freely both internally and externally is said to be an absolute specific in cases of rattlesnake bite. 11. Undoubtedly the remedy of the future is the Antivenene, discovered by Prof. T. R. Fraser of Edinburgh. The dried substance should be dissolved in water and injected hypodermically about the seat of the wound.