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64 DENTAL MEDICINE. ;

CHLORAL.
Symptoms.—Excitement ; delirium ; flushed face ; cramps in
limbs; eyes closed ; profound unconsciousness ; stertorous breath-
ing ; increasing feebleness ; lividity of countenance ; loss of pulse ;
pallor; coldness of extremities ; muscular relaxation; death from
cardiac syncope.
Antidotes.—Nitrate of amyl, when the poison has been taken
in large quantity ; strychnia, when the action of the poison is
slow and culminative. According to some authorities, picrotine,
jV gr., sufficient for 30 grs. of chloral ; coffee.

CHLOROFORM.
Symptoms.—Drowsiness ; insensibility ; stertorous, rapid breath-
ing; weak pulse ; dilatation of pupils ; relaxation of muscles ; cold-
ness of surface ; increasing feebleness of pulse ; heart ceasing its
action.
Antidotes.—Fresh air; artificial respiration (inclining head down,
tongue pulled forward), cold water dashed over face and chest
galvanism to pneumogastric and through diaphragm (one pole
may be applied to nape of neck and the other to the pit of the
stomach); brandy and ammonia enemata; hypodermic injection
of 15 TU, of tincture of digitalis, and gV gr. of atropine, or hypo-
dermic injection of i drachm of ether; inhalation of nitrate of
amyl ; tracheotomy.
CONIUM (Hemlock).
Symptoms.—Thirst; dryness of throat; delirium; convulsions;
coma and death, resulting from paralysis of the respiratory
muscles.
Antidotes.—Emetics, followed by demulcent drinks, internal
and external stimulants, as brandy ; ammonia ; coffee, if coma is
present ; tannic acid ; animal charcoal.

CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.
Symptoms.—Heat and pain of a burning nature in mouth, and
throat, and stomach ; nausea ; vomiting of bloody mucus ; diar-
rhoea; dysentery; cramps; convulsions; coma and death.