Health and Beauty

1867

Poisons - Antidote

When it becomes know that a poison has been swallowed, stir salt and ground mustard of each a heaping teaspoon into a glass of water and have it drank immediately. It is the quickest emetic known.

It should vomit in one minute. Then give the whites of two or three eggs in a cup or two of the strongest coffee. If no coffee, swallow the egg in sweet-cream, and if no cream, sweet-milk, if neither—down with the egg!