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62 DENTAL MEDICINE. ; ;

emollient drinks ; fixed oil and fatty matter ; plaster off wall, in
emergency.
ACONITE.
Symptoms.—Numbness and tingling of the mouth and throat,
followed by vomiting and purging giddiness feeble pulse
; ;
dilated pupil ; oppressive breathing ; paralysis. Death occurs
from syncope or apnea.
Antidotes.—Emetics ; stimulants, external and internal, such as
sulphate of zinc, tannic acid, animal charcoal, atropine, bella-
donna.
ALKALIES (See Potash).
ANTIMONY {Tartar Emetic, Butter o/ Antimony).
Symptoms.—A burning pain in stomach and bowels ; vomit-
ing; purging; cold perspiration; great thirst; cramps; great
debility, and death.
Antidotes.—Vegetable acids, such as tannic acid, catechu, nut-
galls, white oak bark, kino, cinchona.
ARSENIC.
Symptoms.—Faintness and nausea, with burning pain in the
epigastrium; vomiting; purging, or diarrhoea; thirst; constric-
tion in the throat ; feeble action of the heart, with a quick and
weak pulse ; painful and hurried respiration ; cold and clammy
skin. Death occurs from collapse, and sometimes with convul-
sions.
Antidotes.— Freshly precipitated hydrated sesquioxide of iron
(made by adding magnesia to any iron solution); animal char-
coal; ammonia; lime water; stomach pump; artificial respira-
tion ; cold effusion emetics ; milk ; raw eggs.
ARGENTI NITRAS (Nitrate of Silver).
Symptoms.—Corrosion of parts ; sometimes nausea and vomit-
ing and convulsions paralysis.
;
Antidotes.—Solution of common salt in demulcent drinks;
albumen.
ATROPINE.
Symptoms.—Insatiable thirst, with dryness of mouth and throat
nausea; giddiness; palpitation of heart ; intensely dilated pupil,
coma and death.