indigestion, the treatment must be directed to remedy that disorder;
when it is consequent on a plethoric state, purgatives will be
effectual. In this case the patient should abstain from every kind of
diet likely to produce a plethoric condition of body. Animal food and
fermented liquor must be particularly avoided. Too much indulgence in
sleep will also prove injurious. When the attacks arise from nervous
irritability, the excitement must be allayed by change of air and a
tonic diet. Should the palpitation originate from organic derangement,
it must be, of course, beyond domestic management. Luxurious living,
indolence, and tight-lacing often produce this affection: such cases are
to be conquered with a little resolution.

2647. Poisons shall be the next subject for remark; and we anticipate
more detailed instructions for the treatment of persons poisoned, by
giving a simple LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL POISONS, with their ANTIDOTES OR
REMEDIES.

Oil of Vitriol ...............\
Aquafortis ................... Magnesia, Chalk, Soap-and-Water.
Spirit of Salt .............../

Emetic Tartar................. Oily Drinks, Solution of Oak-bark.

Salt of Lemons, or............ Chalk, Whiting, Lime or Magnesia and
Acid of Sugar................. Water. Sometimes an Emetic
Draught.

Pump on back, Smelling-Salts to nose,
Prussic Acid................... Artificial Breathing,
Chloride of Lime to nose.

Pearlash ......................\
Soap-Lees...................... \
Smelling-Salts................. \
Nitre.......................... Lemon-Juice and Vinegar-and-Water
Hartshorn...................... /
Sal-Volatile.................../

Arsenic........................\
Fly-Powder, or................. Emetics, Lime-Water, Soap-and-Water,
White Arsenic.................. Sugar and Water, Oily Drinks.
Kings Yellow, or............... /
Yellow Arsenic................./

Mercury........................\
Corrosive Sublimate............ Whites of Eggs, Soap-and-Water.
Calomel......................../

Opium.......................... Emetic Draught, Vinegar-and-Water,
Laudanum....................... dashing Cold Water on
chest and
face, walking up and down two or
three hours.

Lead........