Syllabus of the lectures on medical jurisprudence and on the treatment of poisoning & suspended animation : delivered in the University of Virginia / by Professor Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Syllabus of the lectures on medical jurisprudence and on the treatment of poisoning & suspended animation : delivered in the University of Virginia / by Professor Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lied on is the application of ligatures above the part bitten, but not too tight or long continued— the wound to be cauterised with a hot iron or lunar caustic and afterwards compresses applied to the part—Perspiration to be encouraged by small doses of Ammonia, Madeira wine and Ether and the patient to be kept in bed well covered. Gangrene is to be combated by anti- septics. 299. Stings of Insects have often proved fatal— The sting of the Scorpion, Tarantula, bee, hum- ble-bee, icasp or hornet requires, according to its violence, internal or external remedies, or both. Generally emollient anodyne applications allay the irritation. Ammonia and Tobacco juice have been likewise recommended—Ammonia must also, if the symptoms require it, be administered internally. If a person be found dead in a lone- ly situation and has perished from the bites of any venemous animal, the wound will general- ly leave sufficient indications—remarks. 300. Omithorynchus paradoxus, the Mullin- gong of New South Wales—spur of this animal contains poison—symptoms like those produced by the bites cf poisonous serpents—have not proved fatal—The exhibition of oil and ammonia has been recommended—requires, however, the same treatment as poisoned wounds. 301. The Pheasant has been considered to have been sometimes poisonous during the wjn-