Ready remedies to be used in cases of poisoning and other accidents, where medical aid is not immediately available / by James Johnson.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ready remedies to be used in cases of poisoning and other accidents, where medical aid is not immediately available / by James Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS. It is not generally known that we possess, in many articles used for domestic purposes, remedies or anti¬ dotes for some of the most violent poisons. To point these out is one of the objects of the present work: and when we consider the number of lives annually lost from poison, not for want of the means of cure, but for want of the knowledge of those means, the utility of this little work cannot be questioned. This of course only applies to those instances where, from distance or otherwise, medical aid is not im¬ mediately attainable. Let it be borne in mind, that this book is not intended to supersede in the slightest de¬ gree the assistance of the Medical Practitioner, but only to indicate those Ready Remedies which are in the reach of all, and may be used with safety and advantage until more efficient aid arrives. The sudden danger, which is the natural conse¬ quence of poison being received into the system, A 2