_Arsenic, Ratsbane, Paris Green, Cobalt, and all arsenical preparations used as rat poisons._--Give the whites of five or six eggs, beaten in half a pint of water; or, flour and water, barley water, flaxseed tea, or magnesia. Also administer an emetic of five grains of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), or fifteen grains of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), ipecac, or mustard and water. After the vomiting, give hydrated sesquioxide of iron in tablespoon doses, every fifteen minutes, until danger is past. This is the best-known antidote for arsenic, and should be procured fresh from the drug store if possible. _Chloral, Chloroform, Ether._--Cold water should be sprinkled over the face and applied to the head. If breathing is suspended, treat the patient for artificial respiration. The use of electricity is recommended. _Corrosive Sublimate_ (Bedbug Poison), _Calomel_ (Mercury).--The whites of three or four eggs, beaten in water, should be given without delay. If eggs are not at hand, flour or thin starch gruel, mucilage of gum arabic, or milk, will answer. An emetic should be taken immediately after the antidote has been administered. _Iodine_ (used for external application).--If it has been swallowed, give a paste of starch, or flour and water. _Lead, Salts of (Sugar of Lead, Lead Paint)._--After an emetic, administer as much Epsom salt, or Glauber's salt, as the patient can drink. Then give large quantities of milk and whites of eggs. _Lunar Caustic, Nitrate of Silver.--Give a large teaspoonful of common salt, in a glass of water. Repeat the dose every ten minutes for an hour. Then give a dose of castor-oil, and let the patient drink freely of flaxseed tea, barley water, or sweet milk. _Muriates of Tin and Zinc._--These poisons are sometimes found in canned goods--fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats. They cause nausea, vomiting, sudden failure of the vital forces, and sometimes cramps and convulsions. Milk, the whites of eggs, strong tea, or tincture of Peruvian bark, should be given. After the violent symptoms have subsided, the patient should drink freely of flaxseed tea or barley water. _Phosphorus, Matches._--Give large quantities of warm water containing calcined magnesia, chalk, or whiting. _Prussic Acid._--Liquor of ammonia, in doses of ten drops to a tablespoonful of water, should be given every fifteen minutes, until the patient is out of danger. Also apply smelling salts to the nose, dash cold water in the face, and give stimulants. _Verdigris._--Give sugar, milk, and whites of eggs in large quantities, then strong tea, but no acids of any kind. Poisons--Vegetable. _Aconite._--Induce free vomiting, then give brandy or whisky every half hour until the dangerous symptoms are allayed. _Alcohol, Spirits._--Give half a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in sweetened water every half hour. Bromide of potassa, in doses of fifteen to thirty grains, every two or three hours, will also be found useful.