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Some Kitchen Kinks: Treatment
Alcohol (Treatment). - Keep the patient active by pinching, slapping with wet towel, or hot and cold douches to head and spine; give plenty of strong coffee; inhale ammonia cautiously, and use artificial respiration if unconscious.
Poisonous Mushrooms (Toadstools). - Give emetics, castor oil, stimulants, and apply heat. Use same treatment for poisoning caused by eating mussels or fish.
Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade). -This drug is contained in cough mixtures, liniments, ointments, and plasters. Its active principle, atropine, is used in eye ointments and washes.
Treatment. - Give emetics, stimulants, apply warmth to extremities and mustard plaster to feet. If insensible, use artificial respiration. Foxglove (Digitalis). - Give emetics, strong tea, apply mustard plaster over the heart and calves of the legs, and give stimulants.
Phosphorus.-Poisoning frequently occurs as the result of sucking or swallowing the heads of matches.