Southern Christian Advocate

Antidotes for Poisonous Chemicals.

Many serious accidents, says the Moniteur des Produits Chimiques, happen or may happen, in consequence of a loss of time in the application of remedies in the case of absorption of, or burning by, such poisonous chemical products as are commonly employed in the industries. The following antidotes are recommended: 1. For phenic, sulphuric, muriatic, nitric, or nitro-muriatic acids, creosote, tincture of iodine, or phosphorus, use the white of an egg well beaten up in water, and a teaspoonful of mustard in warm water. In case sulphuric, "nitric," or muriatic acid has been swallowed, it is necessary to take lime mixed with as small a quantity of water as possible. 2. For chromic acid, the chromates, and colors that have chromium for a base, the compounds of copper, and such preparations as have antimony for a base (such as tartar emetic,) and the compounds of mercury and zinc, use the whites of eggs in abundance, and, as an emetic, mustard, which, however, is useless if the poisoning has been done by tartar emetic. 3. For ammonia, soda, potassa, the silicates, and the alkaline hydrosulphates, use vinegar and afterward oil or milk. 4. For prussic acid and its salts, cyanides of potassium and mercury, the sulphocyanides, oil of bitter almonds, or nitrobenzine, pour water on the patient's head or spinal column, and put mustard plasters on the sole of the feet and the stomach. Do not let the patient go to sleep. 5. For ether, petroleum, benzole, fruit essences, and concentrated alcohol, take strong mustard as an emetic, with much warm water, cold baths and fresh air. Keep the patient awake. 6. For the compounds of baryta or lead, use mustard as emetic, with warm water, Epsom salts or Glauber's salts in water. 7. For arsenic and its compounds, use mustard, and dialyzed iron with magnesia, and, afterward, oil, milk or mucilaginous liquids. 8. For oxalic acid and its salts, use lime or lime water, and afterward castor oil.