onvulsions, and spasms.--_Treatment_. Give whites of eggs,
sugar-and-water, castor-oil, and drinks, such as arrowroot and gruel.

2660. _Emetic Tartar_.--Seen in the form of a white powder, or crystals,
with a slightly metallic taste. It has not often been known to destroy
life.--_Symptoms_. A strong metallic taste in the act of swallowing,
followed by a burning pain in the region of the stomach, vomiting, and
great purging. The pulse is small and rapid, the skin cold and clammy,
the breathing difficult and painful, and the limbs often much cramped.
There is also great prostration of strength.--_Treatment_. Promote the
vomiting by giving plenty of warm water, or warm arrowroot and water.
Strong tea, in large quantities, should be drunk; or, if it can be
obtained, a decoction of oak bark. The after-treatment is the same as
that for acids and alkalis; the principal object in all these cases
being to keep down the inflammation of the parts touched by the poison
by means of leeches, warm poppy fomentations, fever-mixtures, and very
low diet.

2661. _Lead_, and its preparations, _Sugar of Lead, Goulard's Extract,
White Lead._--Lead is by no means an active poison, although it is
popularly considered to be so. It mostly affects people by being taken
into the system slowly, as in the case of painters and glaziers. A
newly-painted house, too, often affects those living in it.--_Symptoms
produced when taken in a large dose_. There is at first a burning,
pricking sensation in the throat, to which thirst, giddiness, and
vomiting follow. The belly is tight, swollen, and painful; _the pain
being relieved by pressure_. The bowels are mostly bound. There is great
depression of strength, and a cold skin.--Treatment. Give an emetic
draught (No. 1, see above) at once, and shortly afterwards a solution of
Epsom salts in large quantities. A little brandy-and-water must be taken
if the depression of strength is very great indeed. Milk, whites of
eggs, and arrowroot are also useful. After two or three hours, cleanse
the stomach and intestines well out with two tablespoonfuls of
castor-oil, and treat the symptoms which follow according to the rules
laid down in other parts of these articles.--_Symptoms when it is taken
into the body slowly_. Headache, pain about the navel, loss of appetite
and flesh, offensive breath, a blueness of the edges of the gums; the
belly is tight, hard, and knotty, and the pulse slow and languid. There
is also some