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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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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    leaves little time, in the majority of instances, to ob¬ tain the attendance of a medical man, and cases must be familiar to the minds of all, in which life has been sacrificed by poison, where, as will be seen hereafter, the antidote may have been in the same room with the dying person, unknown and therefore unused; one instance is here adduced as proof:—A farmer, residing at some distance from a country town, swallowed by mistake a solution of oxalic acid for Epsom salts. Rendered instantly aware by the taste, of the deadly potion he had taken, he mounted his horse and rode for life or death for the nearest assistance, but the dose had been sufficiently power¬ ful to act immediately on the heart, and he was found, fallen from his horse, dead by the road-side. There can be little doubt but that the antidote was under his own roof; chalk or lime diffused in water, taken copiously, would have saved him. Another object which the Author has in view is to show what may be done immediately in some cases of accident and sudden attacks of illness. In the greater number of those accidents which are the result of actual violence, much may be effected to relieve the sufferer, if a course of action is pointed out for the bystanders which they can safely follow ; they cannot, it is true, administer relief equal to a man who has made such cases the study of a life, but they can be instructed how to alleviate the pain,,