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Poisoning

Categories: FIRST AID TO THE INJURED
Military Handbooks: The Plattsburg Manual Advanced Training

Treatment: Send for a doctor at once. Empty the stomach and bowels.

Give two tablespoons full of mustard and warm water or a tablespoon full

of salt in a glass of water to produce vomiting. Then give a purgative.

Tickle throat with finger or feather in case mustard or salt are not

procurable. After the poison has been evacuated, give stimulants and

apply heat and rubbing externally.



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