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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. THE INDICATIONS OF VARIOUS SYMPTOMS IN POISONING. (AN AID TO DIAGNOSIS OF THE POISON) BLINDNESS. Suspect: Wood Alcohol, Barium, Digitalis, Quinine, Nicotine, etc. BREATH (Specific Odor of Breath). Suspect: Acid Hydrocyanic, Alcohol, all ethereal oils, Ammonia, Amyl Nitrite, Amylene-hydrate, Bromine, Bromoform, Chloroform, Creosote, Ether, Brominated Ether, Iodine, lodoform, Nitro-ben- zene, Opium, Paraldehyde, Pental, Phosphorus, salts of Tellurium, Camphor, Tobacco, Formaldehyde, etc. BREATH (Phosphorescence of Breath). Suspect: Phosphorus. (Also Garlic-like odor.) COLLAPSE. Suspect: Concentrated corrosive acids or alkalies, Antimonial preparations, Arsenic, Colchicine, Aconite, Nicotine. COMA, PROFOUND. Suspect: Alcohol, Aniline Oil, Belladonna, Carbon Monoxide, Chloral and its analogues, Chloroform and its analogues, Coal Gas, Opium or Morphine, Oxybutyric Acid, Sulfonal, Trional. See also pages 329-336. CONVULSIONS, SEVERE; OR TETANUS. Suspect: Aconitin, Ammonia salts, Cocaine, Condurangin, Corydalin, Cicutoxin, Cornutin, Cy- tisin, Digitaliresin, Filicic Acid, Gelsemine, Guani- din, Picrotoxin, Ptomaines, Strychnine, Tetanus bacillus toxin, Thebaine, Antimony, Arsenic, etc. COUGH, BARKING, AND APHONIA. Suspect: Allantotoxin, Atropine, Hyoscyamine, Scopolamin, etc. CYANOSIS. Suspect: Anilin, Acetanilid, Benzocoll, Exalgin, Nitrobenzene, Phenacetin, Toluidin. DEAFNESS AND BLINDNESS (More or Less Complete). Suspect: Aconite, Belladonna, Cocaine, Conium. DEATH, QUICK AND SUDDEN. Suspect: Acid Hydrocyanic. Acid Carbolic, Carbon Dioxide, Creosote, Potassium Cyanide or other cyanides. Strong Ammonia, Oxalic Acid. DELAYED SYMPTOMS. (First symptoms of poisoning 12 to 24 hours after eating). Suspect...
