On the following morning
the bandages were removed under the carbolic spray; during the
day there was nausea, in the evening there was collapse, and
carbolic acid was detected in the urine. The pulse became small
and frequent and the temperature sank to 35.5 degrees C. The
frequent vomiting made it impossible to administer remedies by
the stomach, and, in spite of hypodermic injections and external
application of analeptics, the boy died fifty hours after
operation.
Recovery has followed the ingestion of an ounce of officinal
hydrochloric acid. Black mentions a man of thirty-nine who
recovered after swallowing 1 1/2 ounces of commercial
hydrochloric acid. Johnson reports a case of poisoning from a
dram of hydrochloric acid. Tracheotomy was performed, but death
resulted.
Burman mentions recovery after the ingestion of a dram of dilute
hydrocyanic acid of Scheele's strength (2.4 am. of the acid). In
this instance insensibility did not ensue until two minutes after
taking the poison, the retarded digestion being the means of
saving life.
Quoting Taafe, in 1862 Taylor speaks of the case of a man who
swallowed the greater part of a solution containing an ounce of
potassium cyanid. In a few minutes the man was found insensible
in the street, breathing stertorously, and in ten minutes after
the ingestion of the drug the stomach-pump was applied.
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