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OPIUM.
Symptoms.—Increasing drowsiness ; giddiness ; stupor ; insen-
sibility : stertorous breathing; feeble pulse; contracted pupil;
coma; convulsions; death.
Antidotes.—Emetic of lo grs. of sulphate of copper; stomach
pump ; stimulants, external and internal ; brandy and coffee
artificial respiration; cold affusion; ammonia to nostrils; en-
forced exertion galvanic shocks ; belladonna ; tannic acid
;
animal charcoal ; atropine hypodermically.
OXALIC ACID.
Symptoms.—Burning pain in throat, oesophagus and stomach
;
vomiting of a dark green or black fluid, composed of altered
mucus and blood.
Antidotes.—Chalk ; magnesia ; plaster from wall in emergency ;
lime, not potash or soda; emetics; stomach-pump.

PHOSPHORUS.
Symptoms.—Burning pain along alimentary tract ; corrosion of
tissues; vomiting of mucus and blood; diarrhoea.
Antidotes.—Sulphate of copper ; emetics and purgatives.

POTASH AND SODA SALTS.
Symptoms.—Sharp, burning pain of the mouth, throat,
oesophagus and stomach ; corrosion ; vomiting of blood and
mucus.
Antidotes.—Dilute acetic acid ; citric acid ; lemon juice; fixed
oils; demulcents; vinegar.

STRAMONIUM (See Belladonna).
STRYCHNINE.
Symptoms.—Spasmodic action of muscles (twitching); jerking
of limbs; tetanic spasms ; dyspnoea; death.
Antidotes.—Chloroform; belladonna; tincture of aconite;
morphine ; 8 grs. morphine antidote to I gr. strychnia ; extract
also same as nux vomica.
of conium ;