Murrell's What to Do in Cases of Poisoning
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Time has placed a halo of honour round this little book first published in 1881. It gives to-day, as it gave then, all that can be done in a case of poisoning. The use of stomach tube has been encouraged even in the case of con-osive poisons. If the gullet and the stomach have perished before the arrival of the medical man the patient is going to die in any case. Doubt has been cast on the efficacy of ferric hydroxide as an antidote in arsenic poisoning. That should remove the compound from the important position of an ingredient of the Universal Antidote also. Two items need amendment in the next edition : (1) Wasp stings are now treated with vinegar. (2) Cauterization and potassium permanganate have
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