This section of the book is from "The Complete Herbalist" by Dr. O. Phelps Brown. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Herbalist: The People Their Own Physicians By The Use Of Nature's Remedies.
ARTICLES. -- Oil of bitter almonds, laurel water, peach-kernels, cyanide of potassium, used by photographers.
SYMPTOMS. -- If the quantity be large, death instantly ensues. In smaller quantities, nausea, giddiness, debility, weight and pain in the head.
TREATMENT. -- Give spirits of hartshorn very much diluted, and apply a bottle of smelling-salts to the nose, dash cold water on the head, give stimulants, and make the patient stir about.
 
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