Butter Scotch

One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter. Boil until done.

The following list gives some of the more common poisons and the remedies most likely to be on hand in case of need: -

Acids

These cause great heat and sensation of burning pain from the mouth down to the stomach. Remedies: Magnesia, soda, pearl ash, or soap dissolved in water; then use stomach-pump, or emetic.

Alkali

Best remedy is vinegar.

Ammonia

Remedy: Lemon juice, or vinegar.

Alcohol

First cleanse out the stomach by an emetic, then dash cold water on the head, and give ammonia (spirits of hartshorn).

Arsenic

Remedies: In the first place, evacuate the stomach, then give the white of eggs, lime water, or chalk and water, charcoal, and the preparation of iron, particularly hydrate.

Laudanum

Same as opium.

Belladonna

Give emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and water, or lemonade. Morphine Same as opium.

Charcoal

In poison by carbonic gas, remove the patient to the open air, dash cold water on the head and body, and stimulate the nostrils and lungs with hartshorn, at the same time rubbing the chest briskly.

Corrosive Sublimate

Give white of egg freshly mixed with water, or give wheat flour and water, or soap and water freely, or salt and water.

Creosote

White of eggs and emetics.

Lead

White lead and sugar of lead. Remedies: Alum, cathartics - such as castor oil and epsom salts, especially.

Mushrooms When Poisonous

Give emetics and then plenty of vinegar and water, with doses of ether, if handy.

Nitrate Of Silver (Lunar Caustic)

Give a strong solution of common salt and then emetics.

Opium First give a strong emetic of mustard and water, then strong coffee and acid drinks; dash cold water on the head.

Nux Vomica

First emetics and then brandy.

Oxalic Acid (Frequently Mistaken For Epsom Salts)

Remedies: Chalk, magnesia, or soap and water, and other soothing drinks.

Prussic Acid

When there is time, administer chlorine in the shape of soda and lime. Hot brandy and water; hartshorn and turpentine are also useful.

Snake Bite

Apply immediately strong hartshorn, and take it internally; also give sweet oil and stimulants freely; apply a ligature tightly over the part bitten, and then apply a cupping-glass.

Tartar Emetic

Take large doses of tea made of galls, Peruvian bark, or white-oak bark.

Verdigris

Plenty of white of eggs and water.

White Vitriol

Give the patient plenty of milk and water.

A Cure For Whisky Drinkers

Sulphate of iron five grains, magnesia ten grains, peppermint water eleven drachms, spirit of nutmeg one drachm; twice a day.