Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison : and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also, of distinguishing real from apparent death / ... Translated from the French by R. H. Black ... With an Appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention.

  • Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison : and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also, of distinguishing real from apparent death / ... Translated from the French by R. H. Black ... With an Appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Wine, regarded bjfmany persons as pro- per to restore action, is, in this case, a new poison, which acts precisely as that, the effects of which we have combated. It is only after three or four days that solid food is to be taken in small quantities, and of easy digestion. 8. Let us now suppose the case ex^ tremely dangerous and the patient unable to swallow, either from the teeth being clos- ed by spasm, or from constriction of the throat ; we must have recourse to the me- thod suggested by Boerhaave, and im- proved by Messrs. Dupuytren and Renault, which consists in evacuating the stomach by the use of a tube of elastic gum. The tube, says M. Renault, must be of sufficient length that the lower end may reach to the most declining part of the sto- mach, and of sufficient capacity to allow of the passage of soft matters, as those half digested. A metal ferule is to be attach- ed to the superior opening, which is to be received into the pipe of a syringe. It is then to be passed by the mouth or nos- trils ; and a quantity of fluid introduced to dilute, hold in suspension, or dissolve the