Mason reports recovery after taking 80 gr. of
tartar emetic.
Arsenic.--The sources of arsenical poisoning are so curious as to
deserve mention. Confectionery, wall-paper, dyes, and the like
are examples. In other cases we note money-counting, the colored
candles of a Christmas tree, paper collars, ball-wreaths of
artificial flowers, ball-dresses made of green tarlatan, playing
cards, hat-lining, and fly-papers.
Bazin has reported a case in which erythematous pustules appeared
after the exhibition during fifteen days of the 5/6 gr. of
arsenic. Macnal speaks of an eruption similar to that of measles
in a patient to whom he had given but three drops of Fowler's
solution for the short period of three days. Pareira says that in
a gouty patient for whom he prescribed 1/6 gr. of potassium
arseniate daily, on the third day there appeared a bright red
eruption of the face, neck, upper part of the trunk and flexor
surfaces of the joints, and an edematous condition of the
eyelids. The symptoms were preceded by restlessness, headache,
and heat of the skin, and subsided gradually after the second or
third day, desquamation continuing for nearly two months. After
they had subsided entirely, the exhibition of arsenic again
aroused them, and this time they were accompanied by salivation.
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